R/V Sally Ride makes maiden visit to San Diego on Friday
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and the U.S. Navy christened the newest vessel in the UNOLS fleet, R/V Sally Ride, on Aug. 9, 2014 at the Dakota Creek Industries shipyard in Anacortes, Wash. Tam O’Shaughnessy, co-founder of Sally
The newly-built research vessel Sally Ride will make its maiden visit to San Diego on Friday, shortly after it makes a close approach to the Scripps Pier in La Jolla.
The 238-foot ship is scheduled to pass within a mile of the pier at about 4 p.m., en route to its permanent berth in San Diego Bay. An open house will be held aboard the vessel in late October.
Sally Ride is the latest addition to the fleet of research vessels that are operated by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The vessel is named after the late Sally Ride of La Jolla, who became the first American woman to travel in space in 1983 during a flight of the space shuttle Challenger. Ride later served on the UC San Diego faculty. She died of pancreatic cancer in 2012, at the age of 61.
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