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RV KNORR research ship

RV Knorr (AGOR-15) was a research vessel formerly owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the U.S. research community in coordination with and as a part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet.

Knorr was best known as the ship that discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 1985. As opposed to the traditional method of sonar, this was accomplished by towing the ROV Argo over the seafloor to search for debris. 

The ship has anti-roll tanks and an ice-strengthened bow enabling her to work in all of the world’s oceans. She can take a crew of 22 and a scientific party of 34 for as long as 60 days. Knorr was designed to accommodate a wide range of oceanographic tasks, with two instrument hangars, eight scientific work areas, a fully equipped machine shop, three oceanographic winches, and two cranes. 

In 2005–2006, the ship was refitted to support a new “long-coring” system that could extract 150-foot (46 m) plugs of ancient sediments from the sea floor. Weighing nearly 25,000 pounds, the new piston-coring system was the longest in the U.S. research fleet (twice as long as existing systems). This long-corer allowed scientists to sample deep, ancient sediments that are rich with historical information about the ocean and climate.

On December 4, 2014, the research vessel Knorr was decommissioned after more than 40 years as the workhorse of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research fleet. She traveled more than a million miles—the rough equivalent of two round trips to the Moon or forty trips around the Earth. On March 14, 2016, she was transferred to the Mexican Navy and renamed Rio Tecolutla.

This Knorr model reflects the real ship in 2006, during SW06 project (during her 40 years of service, she had several changes.) It is a demonstration of ModelShipMaster.com's ability to build highly customized models. The model was commissioned by an enthusiast and ship’s crew member who provided detailed plans of the ship. Because photos were very limited, a lot of email communication and hand drawings happened. If you want an authentic, high detailed model of a research vessel or just any types of ship, and if you feel that no other places can be nearly as good as we are, click on this link to get a quote.