MV Cory Chouest
History
United States
NameCory Chouest
OwnerEdison Chouest Offshore
Launched6 April 1974
Acquiredleased for 5 years by the U.S. Navy, date unknown
In serviceas MV Cory Chouest in 1989
Identification
FateReturned to Louisiana for redelivery to the owners
General characteristics
Typeocean surveillance ship
Tonnage2,667 DWT
Length265'
Beam60'
Draft14'
Propulsiontwo diesels, two shafts, 4,000bhp
Speed11 knots
Complement16 civilian mariners, 41 military and sponsors
Sensors and
processing systems		both passive and active low frequency sonar arrays
Armamentnone

MV Cory Chouest is an ocean surveillance ship leased by the U.S. Navy in 1989 and assigned to the Navy’s Special Missions Program. Cory Chouest had all SURTASS equipment removed and was returned to her original owners in 2008 completing nearly 20 years of service.[1]

Construction

Cory Chouest was acquired and modified by Edison Chouest Offshore for use by the U.S. Navy as a modified TAGOS vessel. Originally used as a research platform in conjunction with the Amy Chouest, the Cory was later modified to carry an active and passive sonar system. The vessel served until October 2008 when it went off charter.

Mission

The mission of Cory Chouest is to directly support the Navy by using both passive and active low frequency sonar arrays to detect and track undersea threats.

Operational history

In January 1991, the Cory Chouest and Amy Chouest were used as part of the Heard Island feasibility test, an experiment to transmit low frequency sound through the ocean from Heard Island in the Southern Indian Ocean[2] as far as both ocean coasts of the US and Canada.[3] The Cory Chouest was chosen because of its central moon pool and because it was already equipped with an array of low frequency transmitters. A phase-modulated 57Hz signal was used. The experiment was successful and demonstrated that such sound waves could travel as far as the antipodes. Planned transmissions had been for ten days, although owing to the bad weather conditions and the high failure rate of the transmitter elements, used at a frequency below their design frequency, the transmissions were terminated on the sixth day, when only two of the original ten transducers were still working.

Note

There is no journal entry on Cory Chouest at DANFS.

References

  1. ↑ "MSC 2008 in Review -- Special Mission Program". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
  2. ↑ "The Heard Island Feasibility Test". University of Washington. 2007.
  3. ↑ "Heard Island Feasibility Test - reception map". University of Washington. 2007.


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