USC&GS Mitchell

For the Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Mount Mitchell, see NOAAS Mount Mitchell (S 222).

USC&GS Mitchell was a launch that served as a survey ship in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1919 to 1944.

USC&GS Mitchell conducting current surveys.
History
United States
Name	Mitchell
Namesake	Henry Mitchell (1830–1902), U.S. Coast Survey pioneer in the study of the physical oceanography of estuaries and harbors
Builder	Canton Lumber Company, Baltimore, Maryland
Cost	$12,000
Completed	1919
Commissioned	1919
Decommissioned	1944
General characteristics
Type	Survey launch
Length	60 ft (18 m)
Beam	14.8 ft (4.5 m)
Draft	4.6 ft (1.4 m)
Propulsion	Two gasoline engines

Mitchell was built by the Canton Lumber Company at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1919. She entered Coast and Geodetic Survey service that year.

On 10–11 December 1924, Mitchell and the Coast and Geodetic Survey launch USC&GS Marindin aided a United States Marine Corps 50-foot (15 m) motor sailer that had gone aground by pulling it off the rocks and towing it to the U.S. Marine Corps boathouse at St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands.

Mitchell was retired from Coast and Geodetic Survey service in 1944.

References

• NOAA History, A Science Odyssey: Tools of the Trade: Ships: Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships: Mitchell
• NOAA History, A Science Odyssey: Hall of Honor: Lifesaving and the Protection of Property by the Coast & Geodetic Survey 1845-1937