page_title: NOAAS Albatross IV (R 342)
section_title: US government service
hierarchical_section_title: NOAAS Albatross IV (R 342) / US government service
caption_attribution_description: English: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fisheries research ship NOAAS Albatross IV (R 342) with her trawl out astern, photographed from the NOAA fisheries research ship NOAAS Delaware II (R 445)
context_page_description: NOAA Ship Albatross IV (R 342), originally BCF Albatross IV, was a fisheries research ship in commission in the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries from 1963 to 1970 and in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1970 to 2008.
context_section_description: BCF Albatross IV was commissioned into service in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries on May 9, 1963.  When NOAA was established on 3 October 1970 and took over the Bureau's assets, she became part of the NOAA fleet, redesignated NOAAS Albatross IV (R 342).
  Based at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Albatross IV conducted fisheries and living marine resources research off the northeastern coast of the United States.
  On May 12, 1986, shipyard workers were working in Albatross IV's marine sanitation device compartment when one of them accidentally set off the compartment's fixed carbon dioxide firefighting system. Although the other workers escaped, one man, Kelly Prince, passed out in the compartment. He would have suffocated, but three members of the ship's crew – NOAA Corps Lieutenant Dean Smehil, civilian third assistant engineer Daniel J. Parry, and the ship's executive officer – put on Scott air packs and crawled into the very tight compartment. In moments, Smehil and Parry dragged the unconscious Prince from the compartment to safety, saving his life. For their heroism, Smehil and Parry received the Department of Commerce Gold Medal in 1986.
  Albatros IV was decommissioned on 20 November 2008.
caption: NOAAS Albatross IV (R 342) with her trawl out astern, photographed from NOAAS Delaware II (R 445) on 22 March 2005.
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