Argentina

Australia

• RSV
• RV Southern Surveyor

France

• RV Côte d'Aquitaine
• RV Côtes de la Manche
• RV Gwen-Drez
• RV Atalante
• RV Europe
• RV Curieuse
• RV Suroît
• RV
• RV
• RV
• RV Thalia
• RV Thethys II

Germany

• FRV Walther Herwig
  Walther Herwig
  Walther Herwig was a Prussian administrative lawyer, and the founder of the German fisheries science....
  
   III
• FRV Atair
• FRV Deneb
• FRV Wega
• FRV Capella
• FRV Komet
• FRV Clupea
• FRV Solea
• RV Alkor
• RV Littorina
• Mya
• RV Haithabu
• RV Senckenberg
• RV Ludwig Prandtl
• RV Meteor III
• FRV Planet
• RV Poseidon
• RV Alexander von Humboldt (replaced by Maria S. Merian)
• FGS Planet
  Planet class research ship
  The Type 751 Planet of the German Navy is the most modern naval research ship within NATO. It was built as SWATH design in order to reduce the hull volume and to increase the ship's stability - particularly in high seas and at high speed....
  
  

Ireland

• RV Celtic Explorer
• RV Celtic Voyager
• RV Keary

Italy

• RV Andrea
• RV Astrea
• RV Cerruti
• RV Dallaporta
• RV Furetto
• RV Italica
• RV Luigi Sanzo
• RV Maria Grazia
• RV OGS Explora
• RV Regione Lazio 1
• RV Tecnopesca II
• RV Trer
• RV Universitaties
• RV Urania

Italian Navy

Italian Navy

Italian Navy may refer to:* Pre-unitarian navies of the Italian states* Regia Marina, the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Italy * Italian Navy , the navy of the Italian Republic...

• RV Ammiraglio Magnaghi
• RV Aretusa
• RV Elettra
• RV Galatea
• RV Leonardo
• RV Martellotta
• RV Rossetti

Japan

• RV Chikyuu
• RV Hakuho Maru
• RV Kairei
• RV Kaiyo (formerly, Mutsu
  Mutsu (ship)
  Mutsu was Japan's first, and only nuclear-powered ship. It was built as a nuclear merchant ship, one of four such vessels ever constructed, but never carried commercial cargo.-Nuclear propulsion tests:...
  
  )
• RV Natsushima
• RV Shigen (formerly, RV Ramform Victory of Petroleum Geo-Services
  Petroleum Geo-Services
  Petroleum Geo-Services ASA, an oilfield service company, provides geophysical services worldwide. The company provides various seismic and reservoir services, including acquisition, processing, interpretation, and field evaluation. The floating production unit was demerged in 2006 and listed as a...
  
  )
• RV Umitaka Maru
• RV Yokosuka
• RV Nisshin Maru

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

The , or JMSDF, is the naval branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, tasked with the naval defense of Japan. It was formed following the dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Navy after World War II....

operated vessels

• RV Akashi (Retired)
• RV Futami
• RV Nichinan
• RV Suma
• RV Wakasa

Norway

• RV G.M. Dannevig
• RV Johan Hjort
• RV Helmer Hanssen (Jan Mayen)
• RV Håkon Mosby
• RV Dr Fridtjof Nansen
• RV Johan Ruud
• RV G.O. Sars
• RV Trygve Braarud
• RV Bjørn Føyn
• RV Lance

Poland

• ORP Kopernik
• RV Baltica
• RV Doktor Lubecki
• RV IMOR
• RV Kaszubski Brzeg
• RV Oceanograf 1
• RV Oceanograf 2
• ORP Planeta (retired)
• ORP Zodiak (retired)
• RV Birkut (retired)
• RV Hydromet (retired)
• RV Pomorzanin (retired)
• RV Professor Bogucki (retired)
• RV Professor Siedlecki (retired)
• RV Wieczno (retired)

Soviet Union/Russia

List of current operating research vessels of Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 , a lot of them are operated since Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 times:

• RV Aisberg-II
• RV Akademik Aleksandr Nesmeyanov
• RV Akademik Aleksandr Sidorenko
• RV Akademik Boris Petrov
• RV
• RV Akademik Ioffe

• RV Akademik Korolyov
• RV Akademik M.A.Lavrentyev
• RV
• RV Akademik Nikolay Strakhov
• RV Akademik Oparin
• RV
• RV
• RV Akvanavt
• RV Aleksei Chirikov
• RV Amur
• RV Andrei Vilkitzky
• RV Arktika
• RV Artemida
• RV Atlantida
• RV Atlantniro
• RV Atlas
• RV Atmosfera

• RV Bar
• RV Boris Davidov
• RV Briz
• RV Buran
• RV Dalniye Zelentsy
• RV Dmitry Peskov
• RV Faddey Bellinsgausen
• RV Fritiof Nansen
• RV Fyodor Litke
• RV Gals
• RV Gelendzhik
• RV Geo Arctic
• RV Geofizik
• RV Geolog Dmitriy Nalivkin

• RV Geolog Fersman
• RV Gidrobiolog
• RV Gidrolog
• RV Gidrofizik
• RV Gigrometr
• RV Glubina
• RV Groza
• RV Impuls
• RV Ivan Kruzenshtern
• RV Ivan Petrov
• RV Jakov Smirnitskiy
• RV Kapitan Dranitsyn

• RV Kol'skaja
• RV Kompas
• RV Leonid Morozov
• RV Lugovoe
• RV Mangazeya
• RV Metan
• RV Mikhail Verbitskiy
• RV Miraz
• RV Murmanskaja
• RV Okean
• RV Pamyat Merkuriya
• RV Pavel Gordienko
• RV Persey (operated between 1922 and 1941, the first Soviet research vessel)
• RV Pomor
• RV Priboy
• RV Priliv
• RV Professor Bogorov
• RV Professor Gagarinskiy
• RV Professor Kaganovskiy
• RV Professor Khromov
• RV Professor Kurentsov
• RV Professor Logachev
• RV
• RV Professor Multanovskyi
• RV Professor Shtokman
• RV Professor Zubov
• RV Rift
• RV Roumb
• RV Semyon Dezhnev
• RV Shelf
• RV Smolensk
• RV Taimyr
• RV Tantal
• RV Tor
• RV Vadim Popov
• RV Valentin Shashin
• RV Valerian Uryvayev
• RV Viktor Buynitskiy
• RV Vsevolod Timonov
• RV Vulkanolog Вулканолог (судно)
• RV Vyacheslav Frolov

• RV Yantar
• RV Yaroslavets
• RV Yuzhmorgeologiya
• RV Zapolyarjye
• RV Zenit

Turkey

• RV K. Piri Reis
  RV K. Piri Reis
  The RV K. Piri Reis is a Turkish multi purpose research vessel owned by Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir and operated by its Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology. Built in West Germany and launched in 1978, she was named in honor of the Ottoman naval captain and renowned cartographer Piri...
  
  
• RV MTA Selen
  RV MTA Selen
  The RV MTA Selen is a Turkish research vessel owned by the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration in Ankara and operated by its division of Geophysical Directorate for subsea geophysical exploration in shallow waters....
  
  
• RV MTA Sismik 1
  RV MTA Sismik 1
  The RV MTA Sismik 1 is a decommissioned Turkish research vessel belonging to Istanbul Technical University. She is operated by its Faculty of Maritime for training purposes...
  
  

Natural Environment Research Council

Natural Environment Research Council

The Natural Environment Research Council is a British research council that supports research, training and knowledge transfer activities in the environmental sciences.-History:...

Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the city of Plymouth, England is an independent collaborative centre of the Natural Environment Research Council . PML's Chairman is Terence Lewis and PML's Chief Executive is Prof. Stephen de Mora.They focus global issues of climate change and sustainability...

 Plymouth Marine Laboratory Plymouth Marine Laboratory (Ocean Weather Ship)

University Marine Biological Station Millport

(London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 & Glasgow

University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...

 Universities)

United States

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , pronounced , like "noah", is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere...

• NOAAS Bell M. Shimada
  NOAAS Bell M. Shimada (R 227)
  NOAAS Bell M. Shimada is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel launched in September 2008. The ship was named by students at Marina High School in Monterey, California, who won NOAA's vessel-naming contest. The ship's namesake, Bell M...
  
  
• NOAAS David Starr Jordan (Class IV)
• NOAAS Delaware II (Class IV)
• NOAAS Fairweather (Class II)
• NOAAS Gordon Gunter
  USNS Relentless (T-AGOS-18)
  USNS Relentless was a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship of the United States Navy.Stalwart class ships were originally designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of Cold war anti-submarine warfare operations in the 1980s...
  
   (Class III)
• NOAAS Hi'ialakai
  USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3)
  NOAAS Hi'ialakai is a research vessel for the NOAA, but was originally commissioned as USS Vindicator, as a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship for the United States Navy...
  
   (Class III)
• NOAAS Henry B. Bigelow (Class II)
• NOAAS Ka'imimoana
  USNS Titan (T-AGOS-15)
  USNS Titan was a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship of the United States Navy.-History:...
  
   (Class III)
• NOAAS Miller Freeman (Class II)
• NOAAS McArthur II
  USNS Indomitable (T-AGOS-7)
  USNS Indomitable was a United States Navy Stalwart class ocean surveillance ship in service from 1985 to 2002.-History:Indomitable was laid down by the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company at Tacoma, Washington on 26 January 1985 and launched on 16 July 1985. She was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 26...
  
   (Class III) (Class III) (Class III)
• NOAAS Oregon II (Class III)
• NOAAS Oscar Dyson (Class II)
• NOAAS Oscar Elton Sette
  USNS Adventurous (T-AGOS-13)
  USNS Adventurous was a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship of the United States Navy....
  
   (Class III) (Class I) (Class II) (Class II)

http://www.moc.noaa.gov/flt_char.htm

Others

• SSV Corwith Cramer
  Corwith Cramer (ship)
  The Corwith Cramer is a tall ship owned by the Sea Education Association sailing school, named after SEA's founding director. Her home port is Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. She was designed by Wooden and Marean specifically for SEA and was constructed by ASTACE in 1987 in Bilbao, Spain...
  
  
• RV Cape Hatteras (Duke
  Duke University
  Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
  
  /University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
  
  )
• RV Coral Reef II (John G. Shedd Aquarium
  Shedd Aquarium
  The John G. Shedd Aquarium is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that opened on May 30, 1930. The aquarium contains over 25,000 fish, and was for some time the largest indoor aquarium in the world with of water. The Shedd Aquarium was the first inland aquarium with...
  
  ) (URI
  University of Rhode Island
  The University of Rhode Island is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West...
  
  ) (University of Delaware Marine and Earth Studies
  University of Delaware
  The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
  
  , in service 2005)
• RV Savannah (SkIO
  Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
  The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography is an internationally renowned marine science research institute located on the northern end of Skidaway Island near Savannah, Georgia, USA. Founded in 1968, it is part of the University System of Georgia as an independent research unit...
  
  )
• RV Te Vega
  Schooner Te Vega
  The Te Vega is a two-masted, gaff-rigged auxiliary schooner. Originally launched as the Etak, she was designed by New York naval architects Cox & Stevens in 1929 for American businessman Walter Graeme Ladd and his wife, Catherine Everit Macy Ladd...
  
   (Hopkins Marine Station
  Hopkins Marine Station
  Hopkins Marine Station is the marine laboratory of Stanford University. It is located ninety miles south of the university's main campus, in Pacific Grove, California on the Monterey Peninsula, adjacent to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It is home to nine research laboratories and a fluctuating...
  
  ) (University of Washington
  University of Washington
  University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
  
  ) (Oregon State University
  Oregon State University
  Oregon State University is a coeducational, public research university located in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees and a multitude of research opportunities. There are more than 200 academic degree programs offered through the...
  
  )
• DV JOIDES Resolution
• FWS Black Douglas
  Schooner Black Douglas
  The Black Douglas is a three-masted staysail auxiliary schooner built for Robert C. Roebling at the Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine, and launched on 9 June 1930. Designed by renowned New York naval architects H.J...
  
  
• RV FG Walton Smith

Survey ships

Hydrographic Surveying Squadron

(Replaced in 1997 as Ocean surveying vessel) (Antarctic) (Coastal) (Coastal) (Multi-Role Survey Vessel) (Multi-Role Survey Vessel)

( Paid off in 2002).

Non-military
Humber Sentinel

United States

and

• Other members of the US Navy fleet with "AGS" notation