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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

NOAA Hi'Ialakai (R-334)
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USCG Vindicator (WMEC-3) (1993 - 2001)
USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3) (1984 - 1993)

USNS/USCGC Vindicator International Radio Call Sign:
November - Oscar - Delta - Foxtrot NODF

NOAA Hi'Ialakai International Radio Call Sign:
Whiskey - Tango - Echo - Yankee WTEY

USNS Vindicator - Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

National Defense Service Medal

USCGC Vindicator - Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Coast Guard Unit Commendation (16 to 20 May 1994)

Stalwart Class Ocean Surveillance Ship:

Laid down, 14 April 1984, at Tacoma Boat Building Co., Tacoma, WA.

Launched, 1 June 1984

Delivered to the Navy, 21 November 1984

Assigned to MSC and placed in service as USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3)

Placed out of service, struck from the Naval Register and transferred to the US Coast Guard, 30 June 1993

Commissioned USCGC Vindicator (WMEC-3), date unknown

Transferred by the US Coast Guard to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in October 2001 and converted to support NOAA research

Renamed Hi'Ialakai (R-334), homeported at Honolulu, HI.

Decommissioned, 15 December 2020

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 1,565 t.(lt) 2,535t.(fl)
Length 224'
Beam 43'
Draft 15'
Speed 11 kts.
Range 8000 nm
Endurance 50 days

Complement

AGOS - 18 Civilian 15 Navy

NOAA - 6 Officers, 3 Engineers, 15 Crew, 22 Scientists

Propulsion diesel-electric, two shafts, 1,600hp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3)
	387k	Aerial port quarter view of *USNS Vindicator* (T-AGOS-3)** under way, 6 May 1985 DVIC photo # DNSC8508573 from the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.	National Museum of the US Navy
	351k	Aerial starboard bow view of *USNS Vindicator* (T-AGOS-3)** underway, 6 May 1985. DVIC photo # DNSC8508572 from the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.	National Museum of the US Navy
USCGC Vindicator (WMEC-3)
	61k	Aerial view of *USCGC Vindicator* (WMEC-3)** moored at Windward Piers, US. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 26 July 1994. DVIC photo # DN-ST-98-02144 (cropped) by PHCS D.W. Holmes II, from the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.	Orlando Gallardo, Jr.
NOAA Ship Hi'Ialakai (R-334)
	60k	Ex-*USNS Vindicator* (T-AGOS-3) underway off Hawaii as the NOAA Research Ship, Hi'Ialakai (R-334)**, date unknown. NOAA photo	NOAA web site
09660312	194k	NOAA Research Ship, Hi'Ialakai (R-334) off, Rocky point Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 11 June 2008. Habitat: Scaevola taccada. Image from Plants of Hawaii, Image 080611-853. Courtesy of Forest & Kim Starr.	Robert HUrst
09660314	239k	NOAA Research Ship, Hi'Ialakai (R-334) tied up at the Cargo pier on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 13 June 2008. Habitat: Casuarina equisetifolia with Laysan albatross in foreground. Image from Plants of Hawaii, Image 080613-9628. Courtesy of Forest & Kim Starr..	Robert HUrst
09660308	595k	NOAA Research Ship, Hi'Ialakai (R-334) off the coast of Anatahan, a northern island in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, May 2009. Photo: Bernardo Vargas-Ángel / NOAA	NOAA
09660313	94k	NOAA Research Ship, Hi'Ialakai (R-334) seen offshore through a natural arch at Pagan Island, 20 December 2010. NOAA Photo Library	Robert HUrst
09660309	258k	NOAA Research Ship, Hi'Ialakai (R-334) docked at the pier at Midway Island, 16 August 2016. Photo: Photo: Nick Jeremiah/ NOAA	NOAA
09660310	172k	NOAA Research Ship, Hi'Ialakai (R-334) off the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, date unknown. Photo: NOAA Teacher at Sea Program	NOAA
09660305	108k	NOAA Research Ship, Hi'Ialakai (R-334) underway, 20 December 2010, location unknown Flickr	Robert Hurst
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