High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USC GS Surveyor, later NOAA Ship Surveyor (S 132), was an oceanographic survey ship that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1960 to 1970 and in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 1970 until 1995 or 1996. She was the second and last Coast and Geodetic ship named Surveyor and has been the only NOAA ship thus far to bear the name.