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R/V Atlantis aground safely after the 1944 hurricane.

R/V Atlantis aground safely after the 1944 hurricane.
R/V Atlantis aground safely after the 1944 hurricane.
R/V Atlantis aground safely after the 1944 hurricane.
R/V Atlantis aground safely after the 1944 hurricane.
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R/V Atlantis aground safely after the 1944 hurricane.
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09/14/1944
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On September 14, 1944, WHOI's original research vessel Atlantis was moved to the dock of the National Marine Fisheries Service because of an impending hurricane; Captain Lambert Knight and four other crewmen stayed aboard. When the fastening lines parted during the storm, Knight managed to steer the ship toward a place he knew to be mud-bottomed. After the storm, Atlantis rested in six to seven feet of water on Ram Island flats--in the upper reaches of Woods Hole's Great Harbor, near the causeway to Penzance Point--for three weeks. There was no major damage to the ship, though it did cost the Institution $17,000 to have salvage operators raise and move the ship.
Photo courtesy of WHOI Archives
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