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Built: 1939 Length: 41' Beam: 10' Draft: 5'

In 1943 the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution purchased Mytilus from the Coastal and Island Waterways, which operated between Cape Ann and Sandy Hook, New Jersey.  WHOI used Mytilus, named for a blue mussel, for local runs and meteorology.  The vessel was sold in 1953.