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unusual facts about United States Coast Survey



Charles E. Vreeland

He was then assigned briefly (from July to September 1889) with the Office of Naval Intelligence and reported to the Coast Survey late in October, a posting he took until the spring of 1893, when Vreeland was assigned a series of tours as naval attaché — first in Rome, Vienna and finally in Berlin.

Silas Laurence Loomis

He was astronomer to the United States Coast Survey in 1857, and instructor in mathematics to naval cadets in 1860.


see also

Gedney

USC&GS Thomas R. Gedney, originally USCS Thomas R. Gedney, a survey ship in service with the United States Coast Survey from 1875 to 1878 and with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1878 to 1915