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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1942}} | Ship name=USC&GS Hilgard (ASV 82) | Ship namesake=Julius Erasmus Hilgard (1825-1890), fifth superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1881-1885) | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Robinson Marine, Benton Harbor, Michigan | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=1942 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service=1942 | Ship out of service=1967 | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate= | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
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}} | USC&GS Hilgard (ASV 82).[1] was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1942 to 1967. Hilgard was built as an "auxiliary survey vessel" (ASV) for the Coast and Geodetic Survey by Robinson Marine at Benton Harbor, Michigan, in 1942. Hilgard and her sister ship USC&GS Wainwright (ASV 83) conducted wire-drag hydrographic survey operations together along the United States East Coast until 1967, when they were replaced by USC&GS Rude (ASV 90), which later became NOAAS Rude (S 590), and USC&GS Heck (ASV 91), which later became NOAAS Heck (S 591). References1. ^Silverstone, Paul H., [https://books.google.com/books?id=Y36QAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA309&lpg=PA303 The Navy of the Nuclear Age 1947-2007], New York: Routledge, 2009, {{ISBN|0-415-97899-8}}, p. 303.
- NOAA History, A Science Odyssey: Tools of the Trade: Ships: Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships: Hilgard
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