Weather ship

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A weather ship, or ocean station vessel, was a ship stationed in the ocean for surface and upper air meteorological observations for use in weather forecasting. They were primarily located in the north Atlantic and north Pacific oceans, reporting via radio.

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Image: U.S. Coast Guard Historian' Office photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.