A Guide to the Allyn Collins Vine Papers, 1937-1998
Manuscript Collection MC-01
13 boxes (16.25 linear feet)
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution A Guide to the Allyn Collins Vine Papers, 1937-1998 Manuscript Collection MC-01 13 boxes (16.25 linear feet) |
Al Vine’s creative and innovative career reflects his interest and knowledge of science and engineering, learning early on how to design and construct instrumentation such as calibrating equipment for deep-sea gravity measurements.
Allyn Collins Vine was born June 1, 1914, to Elmer and Lulu Vine in Garrettsville, Ohio. He studied physics at nearby Hiram College, where he met his future wife Adelaide R. Holton, with whom he later had three children, Vivian, Norman, and David. After graduating in 1936, Vine earned a master’s degree in physics in 1940, and then was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1973 from Lehigh University. Vine first worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with his graduate advisor, Maurice “Doc” Ewing, during the summers of 1937-1939. Ewing’s group, which included Joe Worzel and John Brackett Hersey, went to sea on the research vessel Atlantis and participated in underwater photography and deep-sea seismic work.
When Al Vine made a permanent move to Woods Hole in 1940, the Institution was evolving into a year-round facility and rapidly expanding to engage in wartime research, due to dramatically increased navy funding. In those days, before intensive specialization, oceanographers shared their multiple talents to solve a problem. As Vine put it, “Columbus [Iselin] would return from Washington on Thursday with a project, and we’d all work on it till it was completed on Monday.” He continued working with Ewing’s group, studying sound transmission in water and working closely with the submarine community during submerged sub testing and performance.
Al Vine and Ewing redesigned the bathythermograph (BT), an instrument that profiled ocean temperatures, for use in antisubmarine warfare, and helped to build hundreds of them for the navy. He increased the BT’s accuracy and reliability and improved its hydrodynamics so it could be deployed from moving ships to locate submarines. He also designed a stationary version for use by submarines to avoid detection. During 1944 he was involved in their installation and operational training at Commander Submarines Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC) in Pearl Harbor. Many years later, in 1972, the Navy belatedly cited Vine’s contribution to the BT project, recalling “the savings of untold numbers of lives, and millions of dollars in ships and equipment,” for which he received the Navy Oceanographer’s Commendation. Vine’s connections with the Navy continued throughout his career.
In 1946 Al Vine was one of the oceanographers to make water wave measurements at the atomic bomb test site in Bikini for Operation CROSSROADS. From 1947-1950 he served half time as oceanographer to the US Navy Bureau of Ships, Sonar division, while still on staff at Woods Hole. On alternate weeks at Woods Hole he worked on underwater sound projects and on improving oceanographic equipment such as towed sonar and underwater camera gear. In 1951 Vine demonstrated the basic elements of an effective fish locator, by turning an echo sounding transducer on its side, and mounting it in a crude “fish “ so it could be conveniently towed. Vine also served as the Navy representative on the oceanographic panel of the Research and Development Board.
Vine worked closely with Brackett Hersey on building the groundwork for the American defense network, SOSUS. In 1952 Vine, Hersey and William Von Arx each presented a paper at a 3-day symposium, sponsored by the National Research Council, on needs for new and improved oceanographic instruments. Since practically all aspects of the instrumental needs were discussed, the symposium amounted to a short intensive course in modern oceanography followed up by a publication.1 In 1956 Vine, along with senior oceanographer Bostwick Ketchum, served as a member of a committee of the National Academy of Sciences to consider the effects of atomic radiation on oceanography and fisheries. In 1957, he was part of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) inspection group that traveled to Naples, Italy, to acquire the bathyscaph Trieste. He also served as the WHOI representative for Project STAG (Subroc Technical Advisory Group) beginning in 1957. The first meeting’s objective involved the preparation of a report outlining the current state of sonar development with respect to the target location posed by Subroc, and indicating areas that required the most urgent research and development efforts.
In 1956, Vine devised the basic means of towing a string of thermometers from a ship. Although the underwater equipment was rather crude and difficult to handle, the rig proved considerably more sensitive than a bathythermograph. Vine, William Richardson, and Brackett Hersey continued their program of employing vertically spaced arrays of thermistors to study shallow temperature distributions. Tests showed that a larger ship would be more effective in towing the thermistors. Roy Rather, an associate of the Institution, through his company, the Commercial Engineering Company, Inc., designed and constructed a chain, in which thermistors and connecting wires could be mounted, and a diesel-powered winch for towing and handling the chain. In 1957 the winch was assembled on the US Coast Guard ship Yamacraw, and an enormous quantity of a new type of temperature data was recorded in the following months in the Sargasso Sea and along the east coast from Nova Scotia to Charleston, SC. At 600 feet long, the chain had 23 thermistors mounted on it at 25-foot intervals. Each thermistor was connected to a self-balancing bridge and digitizer, which in turn fed into an electric typewriter. This instrument revealed considerable complexity even in the wind-mixed surface layers.
Acousticians studied the significance of these findings to sound transmission. In the early 1960s Vine worked with Henry Perkins and Joe Mizula trying to find more ways of achieving quantitative roughness criteria of the isothermal surfaces by analyzing the towed thermistor records. In the mid-1960s they continued an analysis of the frequency distribution of some bottom characteristics of ocean bottom topography, determined from measurements on the echo sounding records of two traverses across the central North Atlantic Ocean.
Other work with instrumentation included the design of a deep-water mooring for an automatic weather station for the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. The boat-shaped buoy, 20 feet by 12 feet, contained electronic weather sensing and telemetering equipment. David Taylor Model Basin built the buoy, and the National Bureau of Standard provided the instrumentation. The mooring was set out in September 1958 and promptly rode out near-hurricane force winds from Hurricane Ella.
Vine took great interest in submersibles and motherships, and began working on a proposed small submersible for one of his most well known and innovative projects. He succeeded in overcoming the initial concern of oceanographers, who considered the project too risky and expensive. In the late 1950s Vine met with ONR and persevered on the project for years until the submersible was built in 1964. Alvin, a contraction of Al Vine’s name and a reference to the popular cartoon chipmunk, was the first US deep diving crewed research submersible. He helped design Lulu, Alvin’s mother ship, which was named for Vine’s mother. Many years later, Vine wrote to Mr. Muneo Edo regarding a diving support vessel for JAMSTEC,
Besides Alvin, Vine also spent considerable time lobbying for other types of oceanographic vessels, including FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform), operated by the Scripps’ Institution of Oceanography, and the Oceanus and R/V Atlantis II, operated by WHOI. One of his more far-reaching ideas, in collaboration with John Isaacs and two Scripps colleagues, entailed running a tapered cable from an orbiting satellite down to the earth’s surface; this “sky hook” could serve to transfer materials to and from the satellite, or launch materials into space. Another project that evolved from one of his many ideas included attaching an airplane wing to two WHOI vessels, Asterias and Crawford, in July 1960, with the intent to increase the ships’ research space.
In 1963 Vine worked as a science advisor to Admiral Stephan of the newly appointed Deep Submerged Systems Review Group (DSSRG), which resulted from the sinking of the large US nuclear-submarine Thresher, in April 1963. The Secretary of the Navy set this group up to make recommendations on how to improve the Navy’s capabilities for finding sunken submarines, rescuing personnel, and recovering the submarine if required. The group was interested in specific aspects of oceanography, including bottom currents, bottom visibility, firmness of the bottom, and a wide variety of oceanographic instruments. Vine predicted that the group's recommendations, if carried out, would 1) enable many tools and equipment to be engineered to assist oceanographers, and 2) draw attention to the need for oceanographic engineers in addition to oceanographic scientists. Vine also provided consultation to the Deep Submersible Group (DSG) of WHOI’s Applied Oceanography Department on instruments and navigational techniques for the Woods Hole research submersible.
In addition he visited Commander Houot at Toulon, France to discuss operational and scientific problems and details for the planned dives of the French bathyscaph Archimede in the Puerto Rico Trench in the spring of 1964. During the spring and summer of 1964, French and American scientists studied the Puerto Rico Trench using the Archimede and her mothership, Marcel Le Bihan, from the French Navy Bathyscaph Group in Toulon and the Laboratoire du Bathyscaphe, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, at Marseille. The scientific efforts in the US were supported through the Office of Naval Research, the Lamont Geological Observatory, and WHOI. The Woods Hole work was divided into two parts. Vine and Joe Mizula worked on the first part with groups on Archimede and R/V Conrad in May and June, helping to take seismic measurements, echo soundings, underwater pictures, and cores for selection of the best locations for the French dives in May and the American dives in June. Vine made dive #5 of the series with Lieutenant de Froberville and M. De Lauze. They also supplied and moored a navigational buoy near the site selected for the US dives. The second part, called Project DEEP SCAN, involved further geophysical investigations of the Trench.
In the late 1960s Vine’s advisory activities involved work with oceanographic vehicles, where he devoted much effort to the consideration and preliminary designs of advanced vehicles and instruments for oceanography. These included a 6000 meter submersible to study geologic features in the deep sea and over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge; techniques for handling large instruments and small submersibles from research ships; a deep-coring device designed specifically for R/V Knorr’s extended capability; and stable platforms for use at sea. In his work with geophysical instruments, Vine conducted a preliminary analysis of the requirements and design considerations of a very high resolution echo sounding system for one the research ships. His involvement with bottom photography included shooting a series of underwater photographs in the Black Sea, taken on Atlantis II during the second leg of the Black Sea cruise 49, to better determine small scale features than the echo sounder could obtain. In 1969 he served as a member of a special panel to review the NAECOE (Navy Ocean Engineering) program and mission. During the late 1960s Vine also spent several weeks lecturing at various colleges including the US Naval War College in Rhode Island, Auburn, University of Pittsburgh, University of Mississippi, Newark College of Engineering, and Tufts, and at several adult education meetings on acoustics in oceanography, geophysics, and ocean engineering.
During 1970 Vine divided his efforts among four areas: three under an ONR contract in the fields of sound transmission, assistance to the fleet and the design of research vehicles, and the fourth under a Coast Guard contract investigating a new technique for the rough weather handling of heavy instruments, small boats or submersibles. He conducted sound transmission work on the geographic aspects of sound channel transmission with emphasis on phenomena associated with non-linear velocity gradients. He also gave talks on physical and acoustical oceanography at Naval Commands in Naples, Norfolk, New London and Honolulu.
His involvement with vehicle and equipment design included conceptual and technical design of high seas workboats, both surface and submersible, that might be carried and routinely used from research ships. As part of his work with studying heavy weather handling, Vine explored the use of energy absorbers on small boats and submersibles. The energy absorption characteristics of aircraft landing gear made it practical to land high-speed aircraft routinely on aircraft carriers. Using the same principles and some of the same landing gear units, Vine attempted to show that it was possible to handle small boats in two or three higher sea states than was then practical. He conducted preliminary tests using a modified 24-knot workboat, and a rig of improved design was constructed for sea tests later that year.
In 1971, Vine investigated the fundamental aspects of handling heavy instruments or small boats at sea in rough weather. His reasons for this work were threefold: 1) severe handicaps in the use of large equipment and small boats in rough weather and often in normal weather, 2) an interest in improving the safety of crew and scientists when handling such equipment, and 3) the importance of seriously considering larger instrumentation to provide new kinds of measurements; typical examples included higher resolution towed echo sounders, side-scan sonars, coring rigs, biological sampling frames, workboats and submersibles. In part, Vine wanted to determine the similarity of the physical and operational problems when airplanes or small boats were being recovered by ship. His test boat was a 3-ton workboat provided by the Coast Guard that was equipped fore and aft with the entire nose wheel landing assemblies from a Navy S-2 aircraft. Another purpose was to test the handling of large buoys made of resilient materials such as plastic or rubber, which could then be more widely used than buoys of rigid construction. Several large tires, 10 feet in diameter and 4 feet wide, were obtained and converted to buoys that could be manned. The Woods Hole based Coast Guard Buoy-Tender, Hornbeam, was successfully used for transferring inspection personnel from the ship to navigational buoys.
Vine’s career spanned over forty years at WHOI, where he started as physicist in 1940, oceanographer in 1950, to senior scientist and scientist emeritus in 1963 and 1979, respectively. He remained active until his death on January 4, 1994, at age 79. Vine was a member of numerous professional organizations, including the National Academy of Engineering, the Acoustical Society of America and the Marine Technology Society. He was also a trustee of the International Oceanographic Foundation. He also received many awards, including the Marine Technology Society Compass Award in 1968; the Hiram Garfield Society Award in 1972; the David B. Stone Award from the New England Aquarium in 1977, for distinguished service to environment and community; the Lockheed Award for Ocean Science and Engineering in 1987; and the Blakely Smith Medal from the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. His commitment to, and interest and involvement in many aspects of oceanography, from ranging from instrumentation to safety at sea, remains evident from the numerous projects, committees, and panels which he either initiated, served, participated in. In 1982 He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Vine also held six patents on oceanographic devices, and authored or co-authored thirty scientific publications, four chapters in physics and engineering handbooks, and ten WHOI technical reports.
After Vine’s death, several people spoke or wrote about Vine. Gary Weir, US Contemporary Naval Historian described him “as a scientific hub of his time, a man of ideas who thought of connections and conjured ideas no on else could; he was a link to so many people, and also helped others to make connections.”3
Fred Speiss wrote:
Another friend, J. Lamar Worzel, wrote:
The Vine papers consist of thirteen record cartons and several map folders that span the years 1937-1993. Files contain correspondence, manuscripts, notes, publications, brochures, proposals, blueprints, data, notebooks, maps and charts, photographs, handmade instruments (slide rules) and drawings. The materials represent the diversity and interdisciplinary aspects of Vine’s interests and projects during the course of his career at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and particularly his work with the Navy during and after World War II.
Any original arrangement that existed has been disturbed over the years. Many of the materials that Vine sent to the archives in the early 1980s, however, retain his original subject headings and comprise the first series, General Subject Files. This series was initially processed as the Vine Papers, until the 1997 donation of materials from Adelaide Vine, which resulted in a revision of the first series and the addition of a second series.
The second series retains Vine’s original name for these files, Ships Subjects Files, and consists largely of 1997 accessions. Several files from these later accessions were integrated into the first series, including a binder of correspondence that had been separated from the correspondence in the first series. These first two series each contain subject groups, or subseries, and attempts were made to organize the papers and files into these subject categories that Vine had assigned to many materials. The correspondence, however, had been mostly kept and preserved in their chronological order in multiple binders.
Biographical information was organized as a third series. The oversized maps, drawings and plans that Vine sent to the archives in a map cabinet were sorted in 1998. Many maps were integrated into the map collection, and duplicates were weeded. A map folder containing oversized plans and drawings is housed in the map drawers. Visual materials were combined with the drawings to form a fourth series, Drawings and Visual Images. These images were removed from the Vine’s papers and housed separately as Vine’s image collection in the Archives photograph collections.
Each series has a more detailed scope and content note available with the box and folder lists below.
From the vast number of publications that Vine had collected over the years, over 140 WHOI technical reports along with Vine’s lending library of non-WHOI technical literature were added to the Data Library and Archives’ collection. Still others were retained in Vine’s papers because of the notations and comments Vine had made in them.
Collection Name, Date. Collection Number, “Folder name.” Data Library and Archives, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Allyn Collins Vine retained materials in his office, in the WHOI archives, and at home. Other materials that had been borrowed were retrieved from various collections. Vine originally sent four file cabinets of materials to the WHOI Archives in the early 1980s to provide research material for a historian. When Vine later moved his office from Clark Laboratory to the Coastal Research Center, he sent a map cabinet to the archives that contained ten drawers of maps (mostly duplicates of current holdings), data, drawings, charts, ray plotting, and plans.
In January 1997, several files belonging to Al Vine were found in unprocessed boxes of Alvin materials that Victoria Kaharl had borrowed to write Water Baby. These files were added to Vine’s papers. In June 1998, Vine’s Aluminaut notebook (box 12, ff.31-32) was removed from another set of Alvin materials and added to his papers. Additionally, WHOI Director Bob Gagosian gave the archives a photograph album that Adelaide Vine had given him. The photographs, taken by Vine’s former classmate from Hiram College and later given to Mrs. Vine, depict scenes of Hiram College, Lamont University, and the early work that Vine, Maurice Ewing and others carried out at WHOI from 1937-1938.
A previous accession (document box 82-47), containing Vine’s Bikini Wavemeters notebook of 1946-1947, was also added to the collection. Additional subject binders belonging to Vine, and found in the Archives vault in the summer of 1996, were added to his papers in December 1996. These binders date from the 1940s and contain correspondence, reports, notes, and data. The materials mostly relate to submarines testing and work done during World War II. In May and June of 1997, Adelaide Vine donated an additional 10 boxes of her husband’s files to the WHOI Archives (accessions 97-24, 97-26). These materials consisted of assorted and unidentified photographs, and ships’ subject files, which created a second series in the collection, called Ships’ Subject Files. The Vine Family retains additional papers of Allyn Vine.
The Allyn C. Vine Fund provided funding for the processing of this collection. Materials were removed from filing cabinets and placed in acid-free boxes. Folders were replaced with acid-free folders and folder headings were transcribed on to the new folders. Materials from binders were removed and placed in archival folders. Paper clips and staples were removed; newspaper clippings, overheads, numerous fragile items were photocopied, and photographs were placed into archival sleeves.
Open: materials are available for research.
This collection is protected by copyright. Permission to publish material from this collection must be authorized by the Institution Archivist.
The WHOI Biographical Files contains photographs of Vine. Additional images are found in the ships photograph collections. Material in the Historical Instrument Files and Patent Files contains Vine patents. Publications can be found in the WHOI Technical Reports and Memorandi, and Collected Reprints.
Several archival collections contain files about Vine: the WHOI Office of the Director (AC 9), contains correspondence, grant, and project information of Vine, especially in the records of Columbus O’Donnell Iselin from 1940-1950. Records for ‘Operation Crossroads Joint Task Force One’ (Acc. box # 84-42B) also contains correspondence relating to a project in which Vine participated.
Of particular interest are the audiocassettes and transcription of an oral history interview conducted by naval historian Gary Weir. The family of Allyn Vine retains additional photographs and papers.
From the vast number of publications that Vine had collected over the years, over 140 WHOI technical reports along with Vine's lending library of non-WHOI technical literature were added to the Data Library and Archives' collection. Still others were retained in Vine's papers because of the notations and comments Vine had made in them.
Arranged in four series:
Researchers wishing to find related materials should search the MBLWHOI Library catalog under these terms.
| Series I: General Subject Files, 1940-1991 8 boxes | |||||||||||
| Series Scope and Content Note | |||||||||||
| This series is divided alphabetically into subseries designated mostly by Vine. Folders are arranged chronologically within each subseries, and pertain to his projects, interests, and organizations with which he had close connections. The subseries include: | |||||||||||
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Subseries 1: Bottom Studies
Subseries 2: Bureau of Ships
Subseries 3: Correspondence
Subseries 4: Harbor Branch Foundation
Subseries 5: Instruments
Subseries 6: Navy
Subseries 7: Operation Deep Scan
Subseries 8: Original Drawings and Negatives
Subseries 9: Plans
Subseries 10: Submarines, Fleet
Subseries 11: Submarines
Subseries 12: Submersibles
Subseries 13: Thermistor Records Study
Subseries 14: Thresher Project
Subseries 15: Underwater Soun
Subseries 16: Writings, Patents, and Talks
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| Materials overlap within the subseries. For example, several of Vine’s early drafts, manuscripts and reports relating to his work with instruments, seismic studies, and the navy are both in the Submarines files and the Underwater Sound files. Similarly, materials from the first series relate to, and overlap with, materials in the second series. | |||||||||||
| The Bottom Studies material (box 1) dates from the early 1960s when Vine, Joe Mizula, and others, worked with continuous towed thermistor records to gather information about the distribution of temperatures in surface waters. These files relate to the Thermistor Records Study group of material. | |||||||||||
| The Bureau of Ships files (box 1), date from 1942-1957, and contain correspondence between Vine, Roger Revelle, WHOI director Columbus Iselin, A.C. Redfield, and W. E. Schevill, among others. Some of these materials pertain to his half-time position as oceanographer for the Bureau’s Sonar division, from 1947-1950. These files are related to the Navy materials. | |||||||||||
| The Correspondence files (boxes1-2) comprise the heart of Vine’s collection, and date mostly from the 1960s and early 1970s. Many of these files are now subtitled ‘Board’ to represent Vine’s interchangeable ‘Board’, ‘Tech board’, and ‘Daily’ assignation, however these files comprise general correspondence with no apparent correlation to any ‘Board.’ | |||||||||||
| Harbor Branch Foundation files (box 2), date back to the early 1970s, when Vine participated in a semi-submerged study for the Foundation. The files also include a proposal for mariculture research; and an operational report for Project Deepwork 100, a simulated saturation dive to 1000 feet (box 2 f.17). | |||||||||||
| The Instruments files (boxes 2-3) date mostly from the 1940s and 1960s, and contain varied materials including data, meeting minutes, notes, reports, proposals, drafts, and program information. | |||||||||||
| Navy files (box 3) date from the 1940s to 1960s and reflect Vine’s enduring and long-reaching communication and involvement with the naval community. Of particular interest is Vine’s draft letter to Howard Hughes addressing ocean exploration as a final frontier worthy of Hughes’s interest and contribution, filed in ‘Committee- NAECOE vehicle panel,’ (box 3, folder 30). Vine was a member of a special panel to review the NAECOE program and mission. He also served as a member of the Subroc (study) Technical Advisory Group [STAG] from 1957-1964, and these files are found in this group of materials (box 3, f.24) and in the Thermistor Records Study files (box 7, f.15). | |||||||||||
| Plans (boxes 4,5) files spans the 1940s to 1970s and comprise blueprints for research vessels, tugs, and planes, and for 1940s fleet submarines. | |||||||||||
| The Submarines files (boxes 5-7) date from 1940s to 1973 and contains studies for salinity-temperature depth recorders, correspondence, trip reports, blueprints, photographs, proposal for Project FAMOUS, and handwritten notes on tests on the Bristol Company’s equipment (box 6, folders 2-4). | |||||||||||
| The Submersibles files (box 7) date from 1958-1973 and contain research and design materials. | |||||||||||
| The Thermistor Records Study files (box 7) date from 1960-1965 and relate to a project looking at the structure of the oceans, specifically the top 500 feet. | |||||||||||
| Thresher Project files (box 7) date from 1963, and include information pertaining to the search for the lost submarine. | |||||||||||
| Underwater Sound files (boxes 7,8) span the years 1940-1976, and contain log and trip notebooks, reports and writings, proposals, and data. Also included is an initial survey of sound fixing and ranging (SOFAR) sites in Bermuda. | |||||||||||
| Writings, Patents, and Talks files (box 8) span the years 1943-1979, and contain meetings and workshop information, drafts, and design material. | |||||||||||
| Subseries 1: Bottom Studies | |||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | “Analysis of some sea floor profiles, by Krause, Dale and Menard, H.1960's | |||||||||
| Original figures; Mizula, Joe, 1960’s | |||||||||||
| 1 | 3 | “Bottom slopes;” drafts, Mizula, Joe and A. Vine | 1961, 1966 | ||||||||
| 4 | Edited draft (WHOI 64-13), by Mizula, Joe and A. Vine | 1963-1966 | |||||||||
| 5 | Figures; Mizula, Joe | January 1966 | |||||||||
| Subseries 2: Bureau of Ships | |||||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Bureau of ships (folder 1 of 6) | 1942-1947 | ||||||||
| 7 | Bureau of ships (folder 2 of 6) | 1942-1947 | |||||||||
| 8 | Bureau of ships (folder 3 of 6) | 1942-1947 | |||||||||
| 9 | Bureau of ships (folder 4 of 6) | 1942-1947 | |||||||||
| 10 | Bureau of ships (folder 5 of 6) | 1942-1947 | |||||||||
| 11 | Bureau of ships (folder 6 of 6) | 1942-1947 | |||||||||
| 12 | Bureau of ships | 1949-1957 | |||||||||
| Subseries 3: Correspondence | |||||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Letter to K.O. Emery | May 29, 1953 | ||||||||
| 14 | Correspondence (folder 1 of 2) | 1961 | |||||||||
| 15 | Correspondence (folder 2 of 2) | 1961 | |||||||||
| 16 | Correspondence (folder 1 of 2) | 1953, 1957, 1960-1961, 1962 | |||||||||
| 17 | Correspondence (folder 2 of 2) | 1953, 1957, 1960-1961, 1962 | |||||||||
| 18 | Correspondence | 1962-1966 | |||||||||
| 19 | One-of-a-kind jobs (folder 1 of 2) | 1964-July1968 | |||||||||
| 20 | One-of-a-kind jobs (folder 2 of 2) | 1964-July1968 | |||||||||
| 21 | Correspondence | 1966 | |||||||||
| 22 | Correspondence | 1966 | |||||||||
| 23 | Board | 1944,1966 | |||||||||
| 24 | Board | 1960, 1964-1969 | |||||||||
| 25 | Board | 1966, 1968 | |||||||||
| 26 | Board (folder 1 of 2) | 1966-1968 | |||||||||
| 27 | Board (folder 2 of 2) | 1966-1968 | |||||||||
| 2 | 1 | Board (folder 1 of 2) | 1966, 1967- July 1968 | ||||||||
| 2 | Board (folder 2 of 2) | 1966, 1967- July 1968 | |||||||||
| 3 | Board (folder 1 of 2) | 1966-1969 | |||||||||
| 4 | Board (folder 2 of 2) | 1966-1969 | |||||||||
| 5 | Board (folder 1 of 2) | 1968-1969 | |||||||||
| 6 | Board (folder 2 of 2) | 1968-1969 | |||||||||
| 7 | Board (folder 1 of 2) | 1969 | |||||||||
| 8 | Board (folder 2 of 2) | 1969 | |||||||||
| 9 | Board | 1970 | |||||||||
| 10 | Board | 1953, 1969, 1970 | |||||||||
| 11 | Board (folder 1 of 3) | 1969, 1970-1973 | |||||||||
| 12 | Board (folder 2 of 3) | 1969, 1970-1973 | |||||||||
| 13 | Board (folder 3 of 3) | 1969, 1970-1973 | |||||||||
| 14 | Board (folder 1 of 2) | 1971-1972 | |||||||||
| 15 | Board (folder 2 of 2) | 1971-1972 | |||||||||
| 16 | Letter from Butler King Couper | May 4, 1991 | |||||||||
| Subseries 4: Harbor Branch Foundation | |||||||||||
| 2 | 17 | Harbor Branch Foundation | 1972-1973 | ||||||||
| 18 | Johnson-Sea-link operating manual, preliminary draft, by Atwell, J.T. and E.C. Link (folder 1 of 2) | 1972 | |||||||||
| 19 | Johnson-Sea-link operating manual, preliminary draft, by Atwell, J.T. and E.C. Link (folder 2 of 2) | 1972 | |||||||||
| 20 | Institute for Environmental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, research program areas and projects | 1973 | |||||||||
| 21 | Notebook; Programs and comments | 1973 | |||||||||
| 22 | Papers after June 1973 accident, Johnson-Sea-Link submersible | 1973 | |||||||||
| 23 | Semi-submerged catamaran studies (folder 1 of 4) | 1973-1974 | |||||||||
| 24 | Semi-submerged catamaran studies (folder 2 of 4) | 1973-1974 | |||||||||
| 25 | Semi-submerged catamaran studies (folder 3 of 4) | 1973-1974 | |||||||||
| 26 | Semi-submerged catamaran studies (folder 4 of 4) | 1973-1974 | |||||||||
| Subseries 5: Instruments | |||||||||||
| 2 | 27 | Examples illustrating use of bathythermograph in diving | 1940’s | ||||||||
| 28 | Original computations for the refraction slide rule, designed by Ewing, M., A. Vine, L. Worzel (folder 1 of 2) | 1940-1941 | |||||||||
| 29 | Original computations for the refraction slide rule, designed by Ewing, M., A. Vine, L. Worzel (folder 2 of 2) | 1940-1941 | |||||||||
| 30 | Minutes of the October 17 meeting on unattended instruments | 1941 | |||||||||
| 31 | Experimental bathythermograph notes and report | 1941-1942 | |||||||||
| 3 | “Notes on installation of submarine bathythermograph” | 1944-1945 | |||||||||
| 2 | Proposed instrument program, by A. Vine | November 20, 1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | “A free fall bathythermograph,” drafts, [by A. Vine et al.?] | 1947 | ||||||||
| 4 | External batteries for subsurface work | August 15, 1947 | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | “Electrodless method for measuring conductivity of electrolytes,” drafts, by Rellis, M. J. | 1948-1949 | ||||||||
| 6 | Company proposals (folder 1 of 2) | 1960-1964 | |||||||||
| 7 | Company proposals (folder 2 of 2) | 1960-1964 | |||||||||
| 8 | P.P.I. Scope sensor proposal | 1960-1966 | |||||||||
| 9 | “A proposal to WHOI for a turbulence instrument for oceanographic investigation,” Aerojet General Corporation | 1961 | |||||||||
| 10 | Pinger for Alvin | 1972 | |||||||||
| 11 | Assorted personal instruments of Al Vine | undated | |||||||||
| Subseries 6: Navy | |||||||||||
| 3 | 12 | Deep Submerged Systems Review Group [DSSRG] report on “The capabilities of deep-tethered vehicles,” (appendix B, v.III) | undated | ||||||||
| 13 | Underwater performance characteristics of Fleet submarines, draft report | 1940’s | |||||||||
| 14 | David Taylor Model Basin, “Notes on the resistance of rods, cables and ropes in water” | December 1940 | |||||||||
| 15 | Navy yards and boats correspondence | 1943-1951 | |||||||||
| 16 | Notes on submarine BT tests, USS Sea Leopard | 1944-1947 | |||||||||
| 17 | Turtle-pressure testing for Bikini Crossroads tests | 1946 | |||||||||
| 18 | Operation Crossroads, Final results | July 1946 | |||||||||
| 19 | Bikini Wavemeters notebook, Avery Island, AG 76 | 1946-1947 | |||||||||
| 20 | Operation CROSSROADS, Correspondence notebook | 1946-1947 | |||||||||
| 21 | Plankton sampler work on USS Sea Dragon (folder 1 of 2) | 1946-1947, | |||||||||
| 22 | Plankton sampler work on USS Sea Dragon (folder 2 of 2) | 1946-1947, | |||||||||
| 23 | Tables for computing the equilibrium configuration of a flexible cable in a uniform stream,” by Pode, L., Navy report | March 1951 | |||||||||
| 24 | NAVSHIPS 320-0351 instruction book for variable depth sonar (VDS) handling facilities | 1951 | |||||||||
| 25 | VDS fish experiment, preliminary report, Don Cameron | Summer 1951 | |||||||||
| 26 | Manuscript and drafts, echo-sounding section for The sea: Ideas and observations, by Vine, A. and B. Luskin | 1954-1960 | |||||||||
| 27 | Subroc (study) Technical Advisory Group [STAG] | 1957-1964 | |||||||||
| 28 | Official publicity and press | 1958-1960 | |||||||||
| 29 | Memo on procedure for multiple ship crossing and study of Gulf Stream; Cinclant | 1959 | |||||||||
| 30 | Project SEABED: “Deep ocean technology,” final presentation, Monterey CA, P.Fye | July 24, 1964 | |||||||||
| 31 | Project SEABED; SUBPAC program | 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| 32 | NEL; VDS data | 1966 | |||||||||
| 33 | Navy Ocean Engineering Program [NAECOE] Vehicle Panel | 1968-1970 | |||||||||
| Subseries 7: Operation Deep Scan | |||||||||||
| 3 | 34 | Log reports | 1958, 1964 | ||||||||
| 35 | DSSRG keysort reference (folder 1 of 2) | 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| 36 | DSSRG keysort reference (folder 2 of 2) | 1961-1963 | |||||||||
| 4 | 1 | Notebook | 1963-1964 | ||||||||
| 2 | Archimede data and notes | 1964 | |||||||||
| 3 | Dive book #6, started 4 June 1964, San Juan | 1964 | |||||||||
| 4 | Notebook | April 1964 | |||||||||
| Subseries 8: Original Drawings and Negatives | |||||||||||
| 4 | 5 | File of ozalid negatives | 1943-1944 | ||||||||
| 6 | Extra ozalids | 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 7 | BT, Deep seismic notes, drawings, plans | 1945-1949 | |||||||||
| 8 | Mechanical drawings for junior BT; Ruttledge, Vine, Holmes | 1946-1947 | |||||||||
| 9 | Original drawings and negatives | 1947-1960? | |||||||||
| Subseries 9: Plans | |||||||||||
| 4 | 10 | Ships, Magga Dan, Lauritzen lines, Copenhagen | undated | ||||||||
| 11 | V-4 Tug Maritime | undated | |||||||||
| 12 | Fleet tug, ATF 118; USS AT 91 and AT 68 Photos | 1940’s | |||||||||
| 13 | AMC, USS Stalwart... | 1942 | |||||||||
| 14 | Steam tug, 149-ft. | 1942 | |||||||||
| 15 | German submarine | 1943 | |||||||||
| 16 | ARS original, Basalt Rock Co. | 1944-1946 | |||||||||
| 17 | CG Flower class | 1944-1951 | |||||||||
| 18 | AVP, Seaplane tender booklet | 1945 | |||||||||
| 19 | EDD 848 booklet | 1946 | |||||||||
| 20 | Hydro winch-DD-conversion | 1946 | |||||||||
| 21 | US Patrol Craft Escort (Rescue)/PCER-850 | 1947 | |||||||||
| 22 | ATA general | 1948-1949 | |||||||||
| 23 | C-4 Cargo | 1951 | |||||||||
| 24 | Fleet ship, 180-ft. twin screw diesel maintenance and supply ship; Knauss AKL conversion | 1951 | |||||||||
| 25 | AK Antares (Victory?) | 1952 | |||||||||
| 26 | MSTS, T-AK 87-Sagitta | 1952 | |||||||||
| 27 | Argentinean San Martin | 1955 | |||||||||
| 28 | Plans and photos; M/V Charles S. Gilbert | 1959-1960 | |||||||||
| 29 | MSTS, T-AK 270 booklet | 1960-1961 | |||||||||
| 30 | US net laying ship, AN 83 | 1961, 1967 | |||||||||
| 31 | AGOR-15, complete | 1970 | |||||||||
| 32 | R/V Eagle, conversion from Tanager | 1977 | |||||||||
| 33 | R/V Polar, 220-ft. | 1979 | |||||||||
| 5 | 1 | Submarines, Fleet: Compartments and tanks arrangements | 1940 | ||||||||
| 2 | Submarines, Fleet: Main ballast flooding and vent diagram | 1941 | |||||||||
| 3 | Submarines, Fleet: Marker buoy installation | 1941 | |||||||||
| 4 | Submarines, Fleet: Trimming and drainage system diagram | 1941 | |||||||||
| 5 | Submarines, Fleet: Submergence tests, arrangement of deflection battens | August 1941 | |||||||||
| 6 | Submarines, Fleet: Foundations; electrical control room | 1941-1943 | |||||||||
| 7 | Submarines, Fleet: Periscope and mast supports | 1941-1943 | |||||||||
| 8 | Submarines, Fleet: Moment diagrams and submarine hatch | 1941-1945 | |||||||||
| 9 | Submarines, Fleet: Frames 50, 52, 53 | 1942 | |||||||||
| 10 | Submarines, Fleet: Bathythermograph installation | 1943 | |||||||||
| 11 | Submarines, Fleet: Piping BT | 1943 | |||||||||
| 12 | Submarines, Fleet: Outboard fittings general arrangement | 1944 | |||||||||
| 13 | Submarines, Fleet: Shafting-main arrangement | 1944 | |||||||||
| 14 | Submarines, Fleet: Hatch cover... | 1945 | |||||||||
| 15 | Submarines, Fleet: Fleet subs, general | 1946 | |||||||||
| 16 | Submarines, Fleet: Hovering system, piping arrangement, control room | 1947 | |||||||||
| Subseries 10: Submarines | |||||||||||
| 5 | 17 | “Instructions…care and use of the submarine bathythermograph type CTB 40131”, NAVSHIP 943-E2, WHOI collaborator | 1940’s | ||||||||
| 18 | “Salinity-temperature depth recorder, preliminary studies…for bathythermograph,” (folder 1 of 3) | 1940-1947 | |||||||||
| 19 | “Salinity-temperature depth recorder, preliminary studies…for bathythermograph,” (folder 2 of 3) | 1940-1947 | |||||||||
| 20 | “Salinity-temperature depth recorder, preliminary studies…for bathythermograph,” (folder 3 of 3) | 1940-1947 | |||||||||
| 21 | From Hawkbill to Whale (book II) (folder 1 of 3) | 1942-1944 | |||||||||
| 22 | From Hawkbill to Whale (book II) (folder 2 of 3) | 1942-1944 | |||||||||
| 23 | From Hawkbill to Whale (book II) (folder 3 of 3) | 1942-1944 | |||||||||
| 6 | 1 | “Sound beam patterns in seawater,” preliminary edition, WHOI report | September 1943 | ||||||||
| 2 | Compression tests #000-485 (folder 1 of 3) | 1943-1945 | |||||||||
| 3 | Compression tests #000-485 (folder 2 of 3) | 1943-1945 | |||||||||
| 4 | Compression tests #000-485 (folder 3 of 3) | 1943-1945 | |||||||||
| 5 | Compression tests on ex-German subs | 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 6 | German subs test results (folder 1 of 5) | 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 7 | German subs test results (folder 2 of 5) | 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 8 | German subs test results (folder 3 of 5) | 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 9 | German subs test results (folder 4 of 5) | 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 10 | German subs test results (folder 5 of 5) | 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 11 | Fleet submarine poster | 1944 | |||||||||
| 12 | Submarines in World War II, compilation of reports, etc. (folder 1 of 2) | 1944 | |||||||||
| 13 | Submarines in World War II, compilation of reports, etc. (folder 2 of 2) | 1944 | |||||||||
| 14 | “Lecture notes on use of submarine bathythermograph,” [WHOI 44-6] | January 1944 | |||||||||
| 15 | “Report on tests of the compressibility of 50 submarines,” by Bumpus, D., A Vine, and A. Redfield | June 1944 | |||||||||
| Field trip, Field engineer’s correspondence | 1944-1945 | ||||||||||
| 17 | Field trip, Pacific | 1944-1945 | |||||||||
| 18 | German publications; instrument manual, U-boats, Schwebe-Great | 1944-1945 | |||||||||
| 19 | Memos, reports, data, by Vine and others (folder 1 of 2) | 1944-1961 | |||||||||
| 20 | “Some principles and limitations of hovering gear for submarines;” with correspondence, Vine, A. | ||||||||||
| 21 | “Memorandum on automatic hovering gear for submarines,” by Vine, A. and W. Schevill | October 3, 1945 | |||||||||
| 22 | Memoranda on VDS tests and sound conditions, with figures | 1945, 1950 | |||||||||
| 23 | Field trip, Micro-switch, Portsmouth New Hampshire | 1946 | |||||||||
| 24 | Field trip, New London, Connecticut | 1946 | |||||||||
| 25 | Submarine correspondence, war work (folder 1 of 2) | 1948-1953 | |||||||||
| 26 | Submarine correspondence, war work (folder 2 of 2) | 1948-1953 | |||||||||
| 27 | Memo on submarine design, bubble reference attitude; Vine, A. and W. Schevill | September 1949 | |||||||||
| 28 | WHOI memo on VDS sea tests, by Rather, R.L. and J. B. Hersey | November 1950 | |||||||||
| 29 | Articulated towlines and VDS systems, by Buckeridge, T.M. | October 1951 | |||||||||
| 30 | Submarine performance, USS Albacore tests and data | August 1956 | |||||||||
| 31 | Columbia University Geophysics Field Station, Navy SOFAR Station in Bermuda, progress report, by Hamilton, G.R. | January-March 1958 | |||||||||
| 32 | “Submarine mothership Ceara,” A.S.N.E. Journal | August 1958 | |||||||||
| 7 | 1 | “Submarine requirements for deep submergence rescue,” Deep Submergence Systems Project | January 1968 | ||||||||
| 2 | Project FAMOUS (Franco-American Mid-ocean Undersea Study), proposal and memos | 1971-1973 | |||||||||
| 3 | “Submarine Rescue capabilities of the US Navy” | October 1972 | |||||||||
| 4 | T-boat habitats | June-July 1973 | |||||||||
| Subseries 11: Submersibles | |||||||||||
| 7 | 5 | “A systems study for exploration of the ocean by unmanned submersibles,” by Brull, M.A. and I.P. Swatzburg | undated | ||||||||
| 6 | Submersibles Research, 20,000-ft. boat | 1958, 1966-1969 | |||||||||
| 7 | Submersibles design | 1961-1969 | |||||||||
| 8 | Submersibles design | 1962-1978 | |||||||||
| 9 | Cable Dynamics reports (title pages only) | 1967-1970 | |||||||||
| 10 | “Air platform/tethered submersible system for exploration of ocean shelves…,” Stachin, Jerry | 1971 | |||||||||
| 11 | Memo on DOT field survey of electric circuit…on deep submergence vehicles, Dept. of Navy | 1971 | |||||||||
| 12 | |||||||||||
| Subseries 12: Thermistor Records Study | |||||||||||
| 7 | 13 | Maps with available thermistor records; Yamacraw I-Chain II | 1957-1960 | ||||||||
| 14 | Data analysis request | 1959-1960 | |||||||||
| 15 | Project STAG | 1959-1963 | |||||||||
| 16 | Outline and notes for report on summer work, “Small scale topography of isothermal surfaces in No. Atlantic” | 1960 | |||||||||
| 7 | 17 | Ship track Chain #7 | Summer 1960 | ||||||||
| 18 | Photos and negatives of ship tracks, and samples | 1960’s | |||||||||
| 19 | Portion of Chain II catalog, (log) | 1960’s | |||||||||
| 20 | Thermistor catalog guide | 1960’s | |||||||||
| 21 | Notebook, secondary reports and time series analysis material | 1960-1962 | |||||||||
| 22 | Basic data | Summer 1961 | |||||||||
| 23 | Measurements and reports, H. Perkins and A. Vine (folder 1 of 2) | 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| 24 | Measurements and reports, H. Perkins and A. Vine (folder 2 of 2) | 1961-1962 | |||||||||
| 25 | Graphs and sketches of transatlantic profiles | 1963-1965 | |||||||||
| Subseries 13: Thresher Project | |||||||||||
| 7 | 26 | Hyperbolae recorded by PDR (Precision Depth Recorder) | undated | ||||||||
| 27 | General | 1963 | |||||||||
| 28 | Chart | 1963 | |||||||||
| 29 | Notebook | April 1963 | |||||||||
| 30 | Sinking of USS Thresher Notebook | April-May 1963 | |||||||||
| Subseries 14: Underwater Sound | |||||||||||
| 7 | 31 | “Preliminary seismic investigations,” USS Baya SS 318; Ewing, M., A. Vine, J. Worzel, and G. Woolard | 1940 | ||||||||
| 32 | “Sound transmission in sea water,” preliminary report, WHOI, (C. Iselin, M. Ewing, A. Vine, et al.) | February 1, 1941 | |||||||||
| 33 | Identification by wakes of submarines and small surface vessels | 1942-1943 | |||||||||
| 8 | 1 | “Preliminary report on acoustic location in shallow water,” by Vine, A. et al. | August 25, 1945 | ||||||||
| 2 | Summary of early co-workers work | 1948 | |||||||||
| 3 | Ray plotting | 1948, 1966-1967, 1971 | |||||||||
| 4 | Al Vine’s notebook: Halifax trip, New Liskeard and Quillback | 1949-1950 | |||||||||
| 5 | Preliminary survey of possible sound fixing and ranging (SOFAR) sites in Bermuda | 1949-1951 | |||||||||
| 6 | Halfbeak logbook, Bermuda | ||||||||||
| 7 | Yamacraw -1 trip notebook, Bermuda | June 20-28, 1957 | |||||||||
| 8 | Technical proposals for ocean-bottom mapping systems | 1961, 1964 | |||||||||
| 9 | Delta theta plots, Daystrom Electric | 1962 | |||||||||
| 10 | “A design analysis of the magnitude of motions of a taut-wire submerged buoy....,” draft, by Savage, G. and J. Milgram | 1949-1950 | |||||||||
| 11 | “Sound reflections in and under the oceans,” by Hersey, J.B., Physics Today | November 1965 | |||||||||
| 12 | “Acoustic running signals for submersibles,” by Vine, A. | 1960’s | |||||||||
| 13 | Mediterranean acoustic studies, conference and report (folder 1 of 2) | 1965-1971 | |||||||||
| 14 | Mediterranean acoustic studies, conference and report (folder 2 of 2) | 1965-1971 | |||||||||
| 15 | Mediterranean samples | 1970 | |||||||||
| 16 | Articles, brochures and notes | 1970-1971 | |||||||||
| 17 | “Soviet material on hydroacoustics,” Informatics Inc. | 1976 | |||||||||
| Subseries 15: Writings, Patents, and Talks | |||||||||||
| 8 | 18 | “Calculation of sound rays using the refraction slide rule,” WHOI collaborator | May 1943 | ||||||||
| 19 | US Maritime Commission report of trials: Tug Gay Head | November 1943 | |||||||||
| 20 | Report of the Special Committee on Long-term Growth; Lawrence, M, A. Vine, F. Ryder | 1954 | |||||||||
| 21 | Current Sea Studies, drafts, by Vine, A., J. Knauss, G. Volkmann, WHOI TR 54-35 (folder 1 of 2) | 1954-1957 | |||||||||
| 22 | Current Sea Studies, drafts, by Vine, A., J. Knauss, G. Volkmann, WHOI TR 54-35 (folder 2 of 2) | 1954-1957 | |||||||||
| 23 | Submarine BT invention; Vine, A. et al. | March 29, 1955 | |||||||||
| 24 | Oceanographic Instrumentation During the International Geophysical Year, by Vine, A. | 1956 | |||||||||
| 25 | “Table of proposed oceanographic measurement requirements,” US Naval Oceanographic Office, unpublished manuscript | 1964 | |||||||||
| 26 | Engineering needs for ocean exploration, Vine’s statement before Magnuson Committee | March 15, 1961 | |||||||||
| 27 | Summaries of investigations for WHOI technical reports | 1963-1972 | |||||||||
| 28 | Sky Hook/Tethered satellite systems (folder 1 of 2) | 1967-1978 | |||||||||
| 29 | Sky Hook/Tethered satellite systems (folder 2 of 2) | 1967-1978 | |||||||||
| 30 | Regional assembly on uses of the sea, WHOI | 1968-1969 | |||||||||
| 31 | “Present and prospective needs of submersibles for underwater communication,” NAS invited paper, by Vine, A. | 1970 | |||||||||
| 32 | Commercial development of the oceans: environment and institutional sub-panel; conference report | 1976 | |||||||||
| 33 | “Preliminary design of 134-ft. coastal research vessel,” Glosten Associates Inc. | October 1976 | |||||||||
| 34 | “Environmental variability and the ocean ecosystem,” report of Biological Oceanography Workshop | April 20-22, 1977 | |||||||||
| 35 | “Geological/Geophysical Oceanography after 1980, the role of large research programs; results of a workshop” | June 15-17, 1977 | |||||||||
| 36 | Post IDOE (International Decade of Ocean Exploration) planning; report of workshop | June 27-29, 1977 | |||||||||
| 37 | “Chemical oceanography: A perspective for the 1980s,” draft conference report | July 1977 | |||||||||
| 38 | “Oceans, mankind and ethics;” Seminar Planning Group meeting, Lisbon | July 1979 | |||||||||
| 39 | The Case for the Semisubmerged Research Ships, A. Vine, Oceanus, vol.25, no. 1 | Spring 1982 | |||||||||
| Series II: Ships Subject Files 1944-1993 5 boxes | |||||||||||
| Series Scope and Content Note | |||||||||||
| This series is organized into six subseries: | |||||||||||
|
Subseries 1: General Files
Subseries 2: Aircraft and Ships
Subseries 3: Design, Plans, Proposals and Reports
Subseries 4: Research Vessels
Subseries 5: Submarines and Submersibles
Subseries 6: Photographs
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| The subseries retained some of the original headings given by Vine; others were added to allow for further organization. Except for the General Files and the Photographs, the subjects are organized alphabetically then chronologically. | |||||||||||
| The General Files (boxes 9-11) date from 1951 to1989, and are chronologically arranged by ‘Ships’ then by other files. These files contain considerable correspondence about the Ship and Vehicle Committee, for which Vine served as chair, and includes information on ship research and design, and the replacement of the R/V Crawford. Files also include proposals, reports, studies, and research and design information. The Mosby platform files relate to the NATO North Atlantic platform for at-sea interaction studies; Vine participated in the Bergen meeting in 1969(box 10 ff. 19-20). | |||||||||||
| The Aircraft and Ships files (box 11) date from 1947, and 1958 to 1977, and include a bibliography and writings. The files also contain information on Vine’s wing project, which involved adding an aircraft wing to two of WHOI’s vessels – the Asterias and the Crawford. Photographs of this project were removed and added to the ‘Science – Photograph’ collection. | |||||||||||
| Design, Plans, Proposals and Reports files (boxes 11, 12) date from 1956 to 1993. | |||||||||||
| Research Vessels files (box 12) date from 1957-1973, and are alphabetically then chronologically arranged. The USGS files include manuals and notes regarding a joint handling-at-sea program, and proposal and contract materials for which Vine was the principal investigator (box 12, ff. 23-25). | |||||||||||
| Submarines, Submersibles, Catamarans and SWATH files (boxes 12, 13) date from the 1940s to 1991. Materials include data, files on Aluminaut and Alvin, designs and plans, notebooks, correspondence, articles, and proposals. | |||||||||||
| Photographs (box 13) include undated images. | |||||||||||
| Subseries 1: General Files | |||||||||||
| 9 | 1 | Ships | 1951-1966 | ||||||||
| 2 | Ships (prior to 1957) | 1953-1956 | |||||||||
| 3 | Ships (folder 1 of 3) | 1957-1961 | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | Ships (folder 2 of 3) | 1957-1961 | ||||||||
| 9 | 5 | Ships (folder 3 of 3) | 1957-1961 | ||||||||
| 6 | Ships for 1964 period (folder 1 of 2) | 1958-1964 | |||||||||
| 7 | Ships for 1964 period (folder 2 of 2) | 1958-1964 | |||||||||
| 8 | Ships (folder 1 of 4) | 1962-1978 | |||||||||
| 9 | Ships (folder 2 of 4) | 1962-1978 | |||||||||
| 10 | Ships (folder 3 of 4) | 1962-1978 | |||||||||
| 11 | Ships (folder 4 of 4) | 1962-1978 | |||||||||
| 12 | Ships | 1952, 1958, 1965-1974 | |||||||||
| 13 | Ships | 1969-1978 | |||||||||
| 14 | Ships | 1979-1980 | |||||||||
| 15 | Other ships and vehicles (folder 1 of 5) | 1951-1972 | |||||||||
| 16 | Other ships and vehicles (folder 2 of 5) | 1951-1972 | |||||||||
| 17 | Other ships and vehicles (folder 3 of 5) | 1951-1972 | |||||||||
| 18 | Other ships and vehicles (folder 4 of 5) | 1951-1972 | |||||||||
| 19 | Other ships and vehicles (folder 5 of 5) | 1951-1972 | |||||||||
| 20 | Drawings, sketches, memos, and notes for talks etc. | undated | |||||||||
| 21 | Transfer of men and materials at sea | undated | |||||||||
| 22 | Navy tow line, model I and II, WHOI, from Barbour Stockwell Co. | 1951-1952 | |||||||||
| 23 | VDS photographs – BandW (folder 1 of 2) | 1952 | |||||||||
| 24 | VDS photographs – BandW (folder 2 of 2) | 1952 | |||||||||
| 25 | Generalized minutes of the conference on Oceanographic Research Vessels | October 1953 | |||||||||
| 26 | Stadimeter data | 1954-1955, 1965 | |||||||||
| 27 | Project ARS (Chain conversion) | 1958, 1961 | |||||||||
| 10 | 1 | AGOR 710, oceanographic research ship | 1958-1965 | ||||||||
| 2 | 300 Gross Ton (GT) oceanographic research vessel; Crawford replacement | 1958, 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| 3 | WHOI Vehicle Committee; Crawford replacement, etc. (folder 1 of 2) | 1958, 1965-1971, 1979 | |||||||||
| 4 | WHOI Vehicle Committee; Crawford replacement, etc. (folder 2 of 2) | 1958, 1965-1971, 1979 | |||||||||
| 5 | WHOI Ship Committee mtg. to get Atlantis II (folder 1 of 2) | 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| 6 | WHOI Ship Committee mtg. to get Atlantis II (folder 2 of 2) | 1959-1961 | |||||||||
| 7 | 300-ton ship, Crawford replacement etc (folder 1 of 4) | 1959-1960, 1964-1971 | |||||||||
| 8 | 300-ton ship, Crawford replacement etc (folder 2 of 4) | 1959-1960, 1964-1971 | |||||||||
| 9 | 300-ton ship, Crawford replacement etc (folder 3 of 4) | 1959-1960, 1964-1971 | |||||||||
| 10 | 300-ton ship, Crawford replacement etc (folder 4 of 4) | 1959-1960, 1964-1971 | |||||||||
| 11 | Floating instrument platform (FLIP), publications | 1960’s | |||||||||
| 12 | Ships in Japan | 1960’s-1970’s | |||||||||
| 13 | 300 GT ship | 1960-1962 | |||||||||
| 14 | Acoustic calibrations | 1961 | |||||||||
| 15 | Flexible wing research | 1962 | |||||||||
| 16 | Stable platforms; Memos and report of NRL (National Research Laboratory) | 1962 | |||||||||
| 17 | Timm Lifeboat | 1964 | |||||||||
| 18 | Preliminary design guidance for WHOI AGOR | 1965 | |||||||||
| 19 | Mosby platform (folder 1 of 2) | 1965-1969 | |||||||||
| 20 | Mosby platform (folder 2 of 2) | 1965-1969 | |||||||||
| 21 | Vehicle Committee files | 1965-1971 | |||||||||
| 22 | Stern trawlers | 1966-1968 | |||||||||
| 23 | Knorr, AGOR 15 (folder 1 of 2) | 1966, 1968-1969 | |||||||||
| 24 | Knorr, AGOR 15 (folder 2 of 2) | 1966, 1968-1969 | |||||||||
| 25 | Ship construction | 1966-1979 | |||||||||
| 26 | DSRV (Deep Submergence Research Vehicle) Support Craft Committee | 1967 | |||||||||
| 27 | “Qualifications ocean engineers need,” by Vine, A., Ocean Industry, v.3 no.4 | April 1968 | |||||||||
| 28 | Letter to Henry Kissinger on keeping high seas international | 1969 | |||||||||
| 29 | Logical conversion of whalecatcher ENERN | 1969 | |||||||||
| 30 | R/V Melville (AGOR 14) Bahamas operations; Personnel schedules | 1969 | |||||||||
| 31 | Soviet underwater research vessel, Sever II | 1969 | |||||||||
| 32 | Naval Underwater Engineering Symposium | May 13, 1969 | |||||||||
| 33 | Energy conservation for research ships; draft memos to Department of Energy | 1970’s | |||||||||
| 34 | NS Savannah – conversion study | 1970 | |||||||||
| 35 | “Sea states and shipboard operator performance and maintenance,” by Lacey, L. | December 1970 | |||||||||
| 11 | 1 | USGS Ships, “Lift system….”, thesis by J. Lowack | 1971 | ||||||||
| 2 | UNOLS: Facilities and coastal zone research vessels | 1971-1972 | |||||||||
| 3 | Spherical tuned hull and Sperry Doppler Speed log | 1971-1972 | |||||||||
| 4 | Ship Committee | 1971-1977 | |||||||||
| 5 | Letter to Emmett Angell re. quieting of ships engaged in acoustic RandD work | 1972 | |||||||||
| 6 | ONR/ARPA expandable base program | 1972 | |||||||||
| 7 | Lead acid batteries | 1973 | |||||||||
| 8 | “Power sources and conversion systems for underwater vehicles…,” by Cestone, J.A., NAVSHIP PMS395-A4 | 1973 | |||||||||
| 9 | Samson cordage works | 1973 | |||||||||
| 10 | ARPA proposal for Lulu, innovations and tests | 1973-1974 | |||||||||
| 11 | Chain | 1973-1979 | |||||||||
| 12 | Trolling gear, fisheries | 1973 | |||||||||
| 13 | Ships and tanker safety | 1973-1977 | |||||||||
| 14 | Oceanographic reserve fleet, and propulsion systems of small ships | 1974 | |||||||||
| 15 | UNOLS profile; Working paper, Craven , J.P., and I.P. Swatzburg | March 4, 1974 | |||||||||
| 16 | UNOLS long range planning meeting, California (folder 1 of 2) | October 23-25, 1974 | |||||||||
| 17 | UNOLS long range planning meeting, California (folder 2 of 2) | October 23-25, 1974 | |||||||||
| 18 | “Undersea laboratory study proposal, USS Mackeral conversion,” by Shumaker, L., and B. Walden | 1974 | |||||||||
| 19 | SIO-ARPA floating bases, G. Fisher (folder 1 of 2) | 1975 | |||||||||
| 20 | SIO-ARPA floating bases, G. Fisher (folder 2 of 2) | 1975 | |||||||||
| 21 | Glomar Explorer : Deep ocean working vessel; Technical description and specification | 1975-1978 | |||||||||
| 22 | Roll reduction on ships; paravane stabilizers, flopperstoppers | 1975-1979 | |||||||||
| 23 | Memo on visibility from Oceanus bridge | 1976 | |||||||||
| 24 | Alcoa Seaprobe; extracts of information | 1976 | |||||||||
| 25 | Atlantis II – Re engineering | 1977 | |||||||||
| 26 | R/V Neecho, small boat program, USGS, Woods Hole | 1977-1978 | |||||||||
| 27 | Re-conversion of ships | 1977-1978 | |||||||||
| 28 | High resolution and/or multi-beam echo sounding | 1978 | |||||||||
| 29 | Multi-purpose research craft | 1978 | |||||||||
| 30 | Air cushion boats, Rohr Marine | 1979? | |||||||||
| 31 | Work boats, safety and efficiency, proposal | 1979 | |||||||||
| 32 | Naval War College class, overheads | August 1980 | |||||||||
| 33 | Ship stabilizer | 1980’s? | |||||||||
| 34 | Talks | 1982-1984 | |||||||||
| 35 | R/V Bernier, Lamont-Doherty Observatory | 1989 | |||||||||
| 36 | WHOI’s fleet requirements in the year 2000; Scientific Staff Committee on Seagoing Facilities | 1989 | |||||||||
| Subseries 2: Aircraft and Ships | |||||||||||
| 11 | 37 | PX-S flying boat | undated | ||||||||
| 38 | Bibliography on use of aircraft in oceanography | 1932-1969 | |||||||||
| 39 | Airships | 1947, undated | |||||||||
| 40 | Aircraft | 1958-1959 | |||||||||
| 41 | Airplane wing-Crawford and Asterias, notebook | July 1960 | |||||||||
| 42 | P5M flying boat wing and mounting on WHOI ships, with original plans and photos | 1960 | |||||||||
| 43 | Aircraft notes, correspondence, and publications | 1967-1977 | |||||||||
| Subseries 3: Ships Design | |||||||||||
| 11 | 44 | Notes for preliminary design of an observation craft for shallow water studies | undated | ||||||||
| 45 | WHOI ship design report | undated | |||||||||
| 46 | Plans, Harbormaster | 1947, 1956-1957 | |||||||||
| 12 | 1 | Stabilizing equipment | 1953, 1958-1961 | ||||||||
| 2 | Plans; Bow Steering study | 1955 | |||||||||
| 3 | Evaluation of WHOI and SCB (Ships Characteristics Board) #185 research ship design | 1958 | |||||||||
| 12 | 4 | Plans; WHOI RV, 210-foot [Atlantis II]; Rosenblatt (folder 1 of 2) | 1958 | ||||||||
| 5 | Plans; WHOI RV, 210-foot [Atlantis II]; Rosenblatt (folder 2 of 2) | 1958 | |||||||||
| 6 | Plans and notes for a 50-foot research boat | 1959 | |||||||||
| 7 | “History and summary of current research ship design work done by M. Rosenblatt…,” Progress report | March 1959 | |||||||||
| 8 | Ship design | 1960’s-1970’s | |||||||||
| 9 | Sperry Gyro stabilizers | 1960, 1972 | |||||||||
| 10 | Plans: SK-DSRVT-3, 4 | 1963 | |||||||||
| 11 | Plans for a 165-foot DWL (Design water line) oceanographic research vessel | 1972, 1976 | |||||||||
| 12 | Plans, R/V Johnson | 1973 | |||||||||
| 13 | Articles on design and construction of oceanographic vessels | 1975-1981 | |||||||||
| 14 | “Proposal for study of the commercial feasibility of SWATH ships,” SEACO Inc. | 1979 | |||||||||
| 15 | Letter from H. Beck, US Naval Oceanographic Office, re. SWATH hull design | 1980 | |||||||||
| 16 | Swath-AGOR 24 design | 1987 | |||||||||
| 17 | Concept design status report for an arctic research vessel (ARV) | 1993 | |||||||||
| Subseries 4: Research Vessels (R/V) | |||||||||||
| 12 | 18 | Asia | 1957 | ||||||||
| 19 | Charter and Merchant vessels | 1960’s | |||||||||
| 20 | Coastal | 1959-1965 | |||||||||
| 21 | Europe | 1963-1964 | |||||||||
| 22 | US and Canada | 1958-1965 | |||||||||
| 23 | USGS Ships | 1968-1970 | |||||||||
| 24 | USGS Ships | 1969-1970 | |||||||||
| 25 | USGS Ships | 1969-1973 | |||||||||
| Subseries 5: Submarines, Submersibles, Catamarans, and SWATH | |||||||||||
| 12 | 26 | Design considerations for support platforms, handling systems, submersibles; conclusions of…Study Group V chaired by A. Vine | undated | ||||||||
| 27 | Proposal for submersible handling | undated | |||||||||
| 28 | USS Guitarro - deep dive test | 1944 | |||||||||
| 29 | Notes on methods of submarine buoyancy control, NDRC (Navy Defense Research Committee) | 1946 | |||||||||
| 30 | Submarine observation chamber | 1950-1958 | |||||||||
| 31 | Aluminaut: Administrative correspondence, Nonr 3483 (00) (folder 1 of 2) | 1958-1961 | |||||||||
| 32 | Aluminaut: Administrative correspondence, Nonr 3483 (00) (folder 2 of 2) | 1958-1961 | |||||||||
| 33 | Aluminaut for WHOI (folder 1 of 4) | 1958-1962 | |||||||||
| 34 | Aluminaut for WHOI (folder 2 of 4) | 1958-1962 | |||||||||
| 35 | Aluminaut for WHOI (folder 3 of 4) | 1958-1962 | |||||||||
| 36 | Aluminaut for WHOI (folder 4 of 4) | 1958-1962 | |||||||||
| 13 | 1 | Aluminaut contract plans | 1960’s? | ||||||||
| 2 | Feasibility design study of a catamaran oceanographic vessel, University of Miami | 1960’s? | |||||||||
| 3 | From Aluminaut Program to new submersible project | 1960-1962 | |||||||||
| 4 | General information on the Aluminaut program | March 20, 1962 | |||||||||
| 5 | Alvin notebook, “Lulu this is Alvin” | 1962-1963 | |||||||||
| 6 | Alvin tethered dive | 1964 | |||||||||
| 7 | Proposal for small submarine launch and retrieval | October 1964 | |||||||||
| 8 | Memo re. Alvin acceptance trials for safety certification | November 20, 1964 | |||||||||
| 9 | Alvin | 1964-1965 | |||||||||
| 10 | The Catamaran as a seagoing work platform,” by Hamlin, C., Ocean Research Corporation | 1965 | |||||||||
| 11 | Autec dive #165-Tongue of the Ocean, notes | 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| 12 | Autec subs, Atlantic undersea test and evaluation center | 1965-1966 | |||||||||
| 13 | Japanese submersible research vessel | 1966 | |||||||||
| 14 | Cruising and hovering response of a tail-stabilized submersible, by A. Strumpf | 1966 | |||||||||
| 15 | Alvin and Trieste | 1966-1967 | |||||||||
| 16 | Submersible safety | 1967-1968 | |||||||||
| 17 | Alvin, deep test dive | 1968 | |||||||||
| 18 | Alvin titanium sphere | 1969 | |||||||||
| 19 | WHOI research priorities for SWATH conceptual design | 1960’s | |||||||||
| 20 | Notes, brochures and articles | 1970-1980 | |||||||||
| 21 | “Naval feasibility study of the S3, a new …concept,” NUC (Naval Undersea Research and Development Center) | 1971, 1973 | |||||||||
| 22 | Early S3 SWATH ship design reports and papers | 1972 | |||||||||
| 23 | Semi-submerged catamaran study… report no. 2, preliminary design studies, part II, design notebook by by Roper, J.K. (folder 1 of 2) | 1973 | |||||||||
| 24 | Semi-submerged catamaran study… report no. 2, preliminary design studies, part II, design notebook by by Roper, J.K. (folder 2 of 2) | 1973 | |||||||||
| 25 | Submarine design | 1973 | |||||||||
| 26 | Stable semi-submerged platform(SSP); monthly status report, NUC | undated | |||||||||
| 27 | Semi-submerged catamaran plans | 1973, 1976-1977 | |||||||||
| 28 | Draft letter to Captain Charles Bishop (USN Ret.) re. semi-submerged catamaran and propulsion unit for FLIP | October 28, 1977 | |||||||||
| 29 | Semi-submersible ship; proposals and correspondence | 1973, 1977-1979 | |||||||||
| 30 | Note on submerged recovery of submersibles in oceanographic work, J.D. Grill, Marine and Aero Designs | 1978 | |||||||||
| 31 | 200-foot twin-hulled semi-submersible work vessel, Trident Ocean Services | 1979 | |||||||||
| 32 | Diving support vessel for Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC) | 1979 | |||||||||
| 33 | Ocean Industry Program (OIP) proposal, semi submerged catamaran | 1979 | |||||||||
| 34 | Semi-submerged research ship, platform and support vessel | 1979 | |||||||||
| 35 | Large catamaran sailing vessels for oceanographic research, Van Leer, J.C. | 1980 | |||||||||
| 36 | SWATH design | 1980-1990 | |||||||||
| 37 | 138-foot SWATH drawings, US Coast Guard | 1985 | |||||||||
| 38 | Semi-submersible design, Victoria Vasek | 1987-1988 | |||||||||
| 39 | UNOLS conceptual design of an intermediate size SWATH oceanographic research ship | July 1988 | |||||||||
| 40 | “Design and operational experience of the SWATH ship, NAVATEK I,” Seidl, L. et al. | 1991 | |||||||||
| 41 | Proposal by SWATH OCEAN, Inc., for a 100-foot SWATH RV | 1991 | |||||||||
| 42 | Submersible Leasing Program | September 3, 1969 | |||||||||
| Subseries 6: Photographs | |||||||||||
| 13 | 43 | Other ships and platforms | undated | ||||||||
| 44 | Unidentified | undated | |||||||||
| Series III: Biographical | |||||||||||
| Series Scope and Content Note | |||||||||||
| This series consists of 8 folders containing Vine’s awards, publicity materials, photograph of his mother Lulu Vine, and an album showing work done with Maurice Ewing in the late 1930s. | |||||||||||
| 13 | 45 | Curriculum vita | undated | ||||||||
| 46 | Bibliography | undated | |||||||||
| 47 | Articles and publicity on Vine | 1971-1998 | |||||||||
| 48 | Awards and citations | 1969, 1977, 1989 | |||||||||
| 49 | Biographical material | undated | |||||||||
| 50 | Obituary and burial information | 1994, 1995 | |||||||||
| 51 | Photograph album of work done at WHOI with M. Ewing | 1937-1938 | |||||||||
| 52 | Photograph of Al Vine’s mother, Lulu | Circa 1910 | |||||||||
| Series IV: Drawings and Visual Images | |||||||||||
| Series Scope and Content Note | |||||||||||
| This series includes ships’ plans and drawings that Vine amended, created, or worked on. Materials are contained in a large map folder and filed in a map cabinet drawer. Vine’s visual materials include photographs and 35-mm slides of his projects and interests, including the airplane wing test on the Crawford and Asterias, Thermistor Study project, and Project Chase. All of the images were added to the archives’ Visual Images Collection. | |||||||||||