From collection National Fisherman Collection
LB2012.15.775
"South Bristol -- Capt. John T. Crowell, Washington, D.C. and Isle au Haut. is supervising the construction, for the National Science Foundation, of a unique oceanographic research vessel at the Harvey Gamage yard ... Crowell, now Special Projects Officer of the Division of Environmental Sciences of the NSF, was associated with Admiral Donald B. MacMillan in Arctic exploration. A veteran of the Antarctic, he is overseeing the building of the 125-footer, stoutly built of Maine oak for work in rough, frigid antarctic weather. /Wed., April 5/ Charles G. H. Evans ... Department of Economic Development, Augusta, Maine." [no NF ref.]
