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Salvage Sailor

Net Layer USS NAHANT (AN-83)

 

Converted to a mine hunter, salvage ship and harbor clearance platform

 

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Net Layer USS COHOES (ANL-78)

 

Recommissioned for Vietnam service with HCU-1 1968-1972

 

She was awarded nine campaign stars in her short salvage career.

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Most ammunition ships are named for Volcanoes......

 

then there's the USS FIREDRAKE (AE-14)

 

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She provided massive amounts of heavy ordnance to the 7th Fleet on the gun line off of Vietnam.

 

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Finally for today the USS San Jose AFS 7, a Combat Stores ship, not sure of the difference between a combat stores ship and a stores ship, still looking into that.

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USNS Albert J. Myer (T-ARC-6) Cable Layer during her MSCPAC days (Military Sealift Command Pacific)

 

A very long and respectable career for the Maritime Commission, US Army, USN, MSTS, and MSC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Albert_J._Myer_(ARC-6)

 

SOSUS The Secret Weapon of Undersea Surveillance

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_25/sosus.htm

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USS AJAX AR 6

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USS Butte AE 27

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USS Hector AR 7 (sorry this pic got clipped a little)

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USS Marias AO57

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USS Milwaukee AOR 2

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USS Puget Sound AD 38

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USS San Diego AFS 6

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USS Rigel AF 58

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USS Sylvania AFS 2

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Love the Ajax patch. My dad retired off her, and at one time I worked for an SMCM who was a plank owner

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Repair Ship USS Klondike AR 22

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Ammo Ship USS Mount Hood AE 29

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Cable laying Ship USS Aeolus ARC 3

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Stores Ship USS Antares AKS 33

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A few new acquisitions:

USS Compass Island EAG 3 Experimental navigation research ship sister to the USS Observation Island

Funded under the Polaris Missile program

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USS San Pablo AGS 30 Ex sea plane tender redesignated for use as a hydrographic survey ship

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The USS Molala ATF 106 fleet tug

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