Editing Weather ship (section)

===1960s===
In 1963, the entire fleet won the [[Flight Safety Foundation]] award for their distinguished service to aviation.<ref name="BritishShips"/>  In 1965, there were a total of 21&nbsp;vessels in the weather ship network. Nine were from the United States, four from the United Kingdom, three from France, two from the [[Netherlands]], two from [[Norway]], and one from Canada. In addition to the routine hourly weather observations and upper air flights four times a day, two [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] ships in the northern and central Pacific Ocean sent [[sounding rocket|meteorological rockets]] up to a height of {{convert|80|km|mi}}. For a time, there was a Dutch weather ship stationed in the Indian Ocean. The network left the [[Southern Hemisphere]] mainly uncovered.<ref name="1965physics">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/physicsofmarinea0007roll|url-access=registration|title=Physics of the marine atmosphere|author=Hans Ulrich Roll|pages=[https://archive.org/details/physicsofmarinea0007roll/page/14 14]–15|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-12-593650-7|year=1965}}</ref>  South Africa maintained a weather ship near latitude [[40th parallel south|40° South]], longitude [[10th meridian east|10° East]] between September 1969 and March 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wavenet.csir.co.za/history.htm|title=History of Ocean Wave Recording in South Africa|author=Ursula von St Ange|year=2002|publisher=Council for Scientific and Industrial Research|access-date=March 25, 2011}}</ref>