NOAAS Peirce

Previously, she had been in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1963 to 1970 as USC&GS Peirce (CSS 28).

After her NOAA decommissioning, she was donated to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum for use as the floating classroom and archaeological research ship MV Elizabeth M. Foster.

[3] For acoustic hydrography and bathymetry, the ship had a deep-water echosounder, a shallow-water echosounder-lOOKhz, and a hydrographic survey sounder.

[5] In 1992, Peirce was donated to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City.

The museum acquired her for use as a floating classroom and archaeological research ship and renamed her MV Elizabeth M. Fisher in 1993.

USC&GS Peirce (CSS 28) is launched by the Marietta Manufacturing Company at Point Pleasant , West Virginia , in October 1962.