Board of Inspection and Survey

INSURV at work
An inspector assesses an anchorage test in the forecastle aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).
Cargo netting aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) is inspected.
Inspectors discuss the process of counting the 6000+ float coats aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).
Inspectors check USS Kitty Hawk’s (CV 63) counter-measure wash-down system.
Sprinkler nozzles are inspected during a test of the flight deck's aqueous film forming foam system aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74).

The Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) is a United States Navy organization whose purpose is to inspect and assess material condition of U.S. Navy vessels.

The Board is currently headquartered at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia.

INSURV teams

The Board performs its tasks by sending out teams at intervals not to exceed 60 months per Naval Ship. These teams evaluate a ship's readiness to conduct combat operations at sea, through an extensive system of checks on installed equipment.

New construction

When a ship has been constructed by a shipyard and turned over to the U.S. Navy, an INSURV team must certify the vessel prior to declaring it operational.

History

The Board of Inspection and Survey was established by Congress to ensure that the ships of the United States Navy are properly equipped for prompt, reliable, sustained mission readiness at sea. Originally established in 1868 under Admiral David Farragut, the board was reconstituted in 1877 with Admiral David Porter as head of the board, expanding on the tasks he had assumed as duties under an instruction of November 16, 1870.

On August 5, 1882, Congress enacted legislation which established the Board of Inspection and Survey under statutory authority. Commodore Alexander A. Semmes was the first officer to assume the title as President, Board of Inspection and Survey. INSURV has been operating continuously under this authority since that date.

In 2008, six Navy ships, including Stout and Chosin, failed their INSURV inspections. More than two dozen other ships were found to have critical deficiencies. Parting from a past practice of publicly releasing INSURV inspection results, the Navy immediately classified the 2008 reports. In response, US Senator Jim Webb, in April 2009, asked the Senate Armed Services Committee to look into the Navy's decision. Said Representative Rob Wittman in support of Webb's action, "I am deeply concerned that a decision to classify these reports across the board would inhibit the Congress' ability to provide necessary and constitutionally mandated oversight."[1]

Mission

The Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) have designated the President, Board of Inspection and Survey (PRESINSURV) as their agent to perform the following statutory, regulatory and contractual requirements:

Presidents of the board

Name Dates
Adm. David Farragut 1868
?? 18691877
Adm. David Dixon Porter 1877
Comm. George H. Cooper 18771880
?? 18801881
Comm. Alexander Alderman Semmes 1882June 1883
Comm. J.C. DeKrafft August 1883October 1885
R.Adm. Edward Simpson October 1885March 1886
R.Adm. James Edward Jouett June 1886February 1890
R.Adm. Lewis Kimberly March 1890April 1892
R.Adm. George Belknap April 1892January 1894
Comm. Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr. March 1894October 1895
Comm. George Dewey November 1895November 1897
R.Adm. Frederick Rodgers October 1898February 1901
R.Adm. Robley Dunglison Evans February 1901April 1902
Capt. Charles J. Train January 1903February 1904
Capt. James H. Dayton February 1904February 1906
R.Adm. Charles Stockton February 1906May 1906
Capt. Hugo Osterhaus May 1906September 1906
R.Adm. Joseph N. Hemphill September 1906May 1907
Capt. Richardson Clover May 1907June 1908
R.Adm. Thomas C. McLean June 1908December 1909
Capt. Chauncey Thomas January 1910October 1910
R.Adm. Thomas Snowden October 1910November 1911
Capt. Augustus Francis Fechteler November 1911November 1913
Capt. Henry Braid Wilson November 1913May 1916
Capt. William A. Gill May 1916October 1918
Capt. George A. Kline October 1918July 1921
R.Adm. Charles Peshall Plunkett August 1921November 1922
R.Adm. N. A. McCulley December 1922June 1923
R.Adm. Alexander S. Halstead June 1923August 1923
R.Adm. G. H. Burrage August 1923October 1926
R.Adm. Lucius A. Bostwick October 1926October 1928
R.Adm. Frank H. Brumby November 1928June 1929
R.Adm. George C. Day July 1929September 1929
R.Adm. Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle September 1929June 1931
R.Adm. George C. Day June 1931October 1935
R.Adm. J. D. Wainwright October 1935May 1937
R.Adm. H. L. Brinser July 1937September 1940
R.Adm. John W. Wilcox, Jr. September 1940December 1941
R.Adm. David McD. Lebreton December 1941November 1942
R.Adm. Walter Stratton Anderson November 1942June 1944
R.Adm. Arthur G. Robinson June 1944March 1945
R.Adm. Leigh Noyes March 1945June 1946
R.Adm. Frank A. Braisted July 1946March 1951
R.Adm. Calvin T. Durgin March 1951September 1951
R.Adm. James H. Doyle September 1951May 1952
R.Adm. John M. Higgins May 1952May 1954
R.Adm. Richard F. Stout May 1954June 1959
R.Adm. F. D. McCorkle June 1959November 1960
R.Adm. Donald C. Varian December 1960July 1961
Capt. W.M. Ryon August 1961November 1961
R.Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey November 1961March 1964
R.Adm. Harry L. Reiter March 1964June 1967
R.Adm. John D. Bulkeley June 1967August 1988
Capt. David J. Klinkhamer August 1988September 1988
R.Adm. Theodore E. Lewin September 1988July 1992
R.Adm. Phillip R. Olson July 1992July 1996
R.Adm. Henry F. Herrera July 1996December 1997
R.Adm. John T. Lyons III December 1997May 1999
R.Adm. William R. Schmidt May 1999August 2002
R.Adm. Curtis A. Kemp August 2002July 2006
R.Adm. Michael P. Nowakowski July 2006April 2007
R.Adm. Raymond Michael Klein April 2007November 2009
R.Adm. John N. Christenson November 2009March 2011
R.Adm. Robert O. Wray March 2011October 2013
R.Adm. Jeffrey A. Harley October 2013October 2014
R.Adm. Michael E. Smith October 2014August 2015
R.Adm. Samuel Perez, Jr. August 2015present

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