US FWS Albatross III was a fisheries research ship in commission in the United States Fish and Wildlife Service from 1948 to 1959.

Prior to her Fish and Wildlife Service career, she operated as the commercial fishing trawler SS Harvard and briefly saw service during World War II as the United States Coast Guard patrol vessel USCGC Bellefonte (WYP-373), in commission from April to August 1944.

Harvard fished the waters off New England until 1939, when the General Seafoods Corporation sold her to the United States Government for $1.00 (USD).

Fish and Wildlife Service for conversion to and operation as the fisheries research ship Albatross III.

This proved impractical, however, the idea was abandoned after her first few voyages, and financial shortfalls began to plague her operating schedule.

Faced with increasing maintenance and operational costs for the aging ship, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries decommissioned Albatross III in March 1959.

In November that year she was sold to the Island Steamship Line of Hyannis, Massachusetts, headed by Joseph T Gelinas.

[2] By 1963 Albatross III had been renamed Nyleve in the ownership of Enos Shipping Corporation and registered in Panama.