High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! RV Wecoma is a research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the College of Oceanic Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University (OSU) as a member of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) fleet. Its is based in Newport in the U.S. state of Oregon near OSU`s Hatfield Marine Science Center. Launched in 1975, it has a maximum displacement of 1,150 long tons (1,168 t).