page_title: NOAAS Henry B. Bigelow (R 225)
section_title: Construction and commissioning
hierarchical_section_title: NOAAS Henry B. Bigelow (R 225) / Construction and commissioning
caption_attribution_description: English: The NOAA vessel Henry Bigelow in Boston Harbor April 2010
context_page_description: NOAAS Henry B. Bigelow (R 225) is a fisheries research vessel operated by the United States' National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. She is the second in a class of five new fisheries research vessels. She is named after Henry Bryant Bigelow, the American oceanographer, zoologist, and marine biologist who founded the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
context_section_description: Henry B. Bigelow was built by VT Halter Marine, Inc., at Moss Point, Mississippi. Her keel was laid on 21 May 2004 and she was launched on 8 July 2005. The ship was the first to be named through the "Name NOAA's New Ship" series of educational outreach contests, with the winning entry submitted by a team of five students: Crystal Lamott, Carrie McEwen, Crystal Syvinski, Maddie Dillon and Max Del Viscio from Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, New Hampshire, along with their marine biology teacher, Catherine Silver. Silver represented the ship's sponsor, Kathleen Gregg, the wife of New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, at the launching ceremony and christened the ship . NOAA commissioned Henry B. Bigelow on 16 July 2007.
caption: NOAAS Henry B. Bigelow (R 225) in Boston Harbor in 2010.
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