It was announced from Naples in mid-January that the Military Sealift Command’s oceanographic survey ship USNS Henson completed her eight-month deployment to the US 6th Fleet area of responsibility. She spent 163 days on station and conducted survey operations in the Norwegian Sea and the Gulf of Guinea. The ship, its crew of civilian mariners, and an embarked team of 29 oceanographers, historians, underwater archaeologists and researchers, also participated in the most recent search off the coast of England for the Revolutionary warship Bonhomme Richard, captained by John Paul Jones when it was lost at sea in 1799.