Please ask any questions, additional pictures are available upon request.The NOAAS Hi'ialakai was originally built and launched as the USNS Vindicator. The Vindicator was ordered on September 26th 1980. She was laid down on April, 14th 1983 by the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, at Tacoma, Washington, and was launched on June 1st, 1984. Tacoma Boatbuilding delivered her to the U.S. Navy on November 21st, 1984. USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3) was a United States Navy Stalwart-class modified tactical auxiliary general ocean surveillance ship that was in service from 1984 to 1993. Vindicator then served in the United States Coast Guard from 1994 to 2001 as the medium endurance cutter USCGC Vindicator (WMEC-3). In October 2001, Vindicator was transferred to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). After a $4,000,000 conversion into an oceanographic research ship, she was commissioned into NOAA service on 3 September 2004 as NOAAS Hi'ialakai (R 334), co-sponsored by Margaret "Maggie" Awamura Inouye, the wife of United States Senator from Hawaii Daniel Inouye, and University of Hawaii Professor Emerita Isabella A. Abbott. She was decommissioned on 14 December 2020.The general characteristics of the NOAA Ship Hiialakai include a displacement of 1,650 tons
(light) and 2,285 tons (full load). The overall length of the ship is 225 ft with a 43 ft beam, 16 ft
draft, and 20 ft depth. Ships propulsion provided by General Electric 800 hp diesel electric
motors with twin shafts. The ship was able to reach speeds of 11 knots and cruises at 10 knots.
The overall range of the ship is 20,000 nautical miles or approximately 35 days. The ship can
carry two work boats and a fast rescue boat. Hotel and drive power supplied by four diesel
generators. The diesel generators have Caterpillar prime movers with Kato Generators currently
non-operational. Vessel will require towing. Additionally, the NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai equipment includes multibeam sonar and echo sounder
equipment for underwater mapping work. Additional features include a wet and dry lab, and
electronics laboratory. On deck, there is a 46-foot telescoping boom with a designed lifting
capacity of 6,600 pounds at full extension, an A-frame with a maximum safe working load of
22,000 pounds, and a J-frame with a maximum safe working load of 3,500 pounds. The ship was
designed to support up to 50 people.
Electronically; the NOAA Ship Hiialakai is equipped with navigational equipment and sensors.
Although there is a multibeam sonar system installed, the installed systems (Kongsberg EM300
and EM3002) are obsolete and no longer supported by the manufacturer. There are mounting
rings in the acoustic blister for Kongsberg mid-water transducers to support the ES-38-7, ES-70-
7, ES-120-7, and ES-200-7 fisheries acoustic sonar system. There is also a 12KHz scientific
sounder installed. A Teledyne-RDI Ocean Surveyor OS-75 Phase II Acoustic Doppler Profiling
System was installed, the system was removed and the hull opening for the transducer is
protected with both underwater and inside-the-hull blanking plates to prevent water intrusion.
The ship has a Sea Area A3 compliant GMDSS communications station installed on the bridge.
There is both a 3cm (X-Band) and a 10cm (S-Band) Radar installed. There is a Transas
NaviSailor NS-4000 ECDIS system installed. There are various additional navigational sensors
also installed (Furuno FA150 AIS, Furuno GP170 GPS systems, Furuno FE-700 IMO sounder, a
dual Teledyne-TSS Meridian Surveyor Gyro system, and others). THE FOLLOWING SYSTEMS ARE NON FUNCTIONAL (Not limited to this list) Sea Chest is blanked closed
Emergency Diesel Generator has been removed Circuit cards for generator controls has been stripped Generator #1 Gear Drive has been removed Main Propulsion Circuit Breaker has been stripped Stand for Port side gyro repeater is rusted through Manual pull for ships whistle has been removed
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