Salvage Sailor Posted September 1, 2014 Share #1 Posted September 1, 2014 Another catch-all topic for Oceanographic Units and related commands and vessels. Feel free to post your examples. The U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office traces it's lineage through the U.S. Naval Observatory & Hydrographic Office, to the Hydrographers Office, to the U.S. Exploring Expedition and ultimately to the Depot of Charts and Instruments established in 1830. It is currently known as NAVOCEANO which also controls the Fleet Survey Team (FST) and the Naval Ice Center (NAVICE) To fulfill it's varied duties and functions, the Oceanographic Office has controlled it's own fleet of vessels, past and present, which have primarily been comprised of AGS classes of ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share #2 Posted September 1, 2014 DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE 5" cut edge original - 1962 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share #3 Posted September 2, 2014 USNS BOWDITCH (T-AGS-21) the Bowditch class leader converted from a Victory Ship 1960's Japanese patch for US NAVY OCEANOGRAPHIC UNIT ONE embarked She was in service from 1958 to 1988 Never know what you might find in the dollar bin under the BSA, Police and Fire piles...... US made 1980's patch USNS BOWDITCH (T-AGS-21) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irish Posted September 2, 2014 Share #4 Posted September 2, 2014 Nice patches , saw those also. Interesting history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share #5 Posted September 2, 2014 Her sister ship, USNS MICHELSON (T-AGS-23) another converted Victory Ship, she was in USNS service from 1958 to 1975 US NAVY OCEANOGRAPHIC DETACHMENT THREE embarked aboard 5" round Japanese made Note: USNOD TWO was on their sister ship, USNS DUTTON (T-AGS-22) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share #6 Posted September 2, 2014 USNS HARKNESS (T-AGS-32) a Scottish made Chauvenet class hydrographic survey ship In USNS service from 1971 to 1993 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #7 Posted September 11, 2015 Found the rest of my stash.....put on your tinfoil hat for this one..... Original Project Magnet patch U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office 1953 ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/wdc/geomagnetism/docs/publications/1966/TheHydrographicSurveysDepartmentoftheUSNavalOceanographicOffice_1966_318.pdf The U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office has confirmed the existence of Project Magnet, an “Airborne Geomagnetic Survey,” as an unclassified project allegedly not related to UFO investigation. In the previous edition of the UFO Investigator (Vol. l1 No.9) NICAP reported a link between this project and the Canadian government project of the same name, which was an avowed attempt to obtain scientific data on UFOs. Personnel of one of the U.S. project aircraft, a specially equipped Constellation, had admitted to Advisor Robert C. Beck that the two projects were “closely related.” Mr. Beck was told that they were searching out magnetic anomalies, - disruptions of the earth’s magnetic field,-emanating from above the earth. In a letter to a NICAP member dated November 21, 1963, Cmdr. P.B. Everson, U.S.N., gave the following information: Project Magnet was initiated in 1951. Currently there are two aircraft employed in the Project Magnet operations, one C-121 and one C-54 type aircraft.” (The C-121 presumably in the last issue). The project is under the technical control and direction of the Navy Oceanographic Office. The purpose is to gather data over the ocean areas for charts showing magnetic intensities and variations. The project is authorized “on a permanent and continuing basis” by OPVAV (Navy Regulation) 3160.3B. The average budget for the past three years has been $114,000 per fiscal year, including aircraft operation. A brochure prepared by the Oceanographic Office makes no mention of UFOs, magnetic anomalies from above the earth, or the Canadian project. NICAP will continue to seek addition information about a possible tie-in with unpublicized UFO investigations by the Navy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #8 Posted September 11, 2015 From this to this OCEANOGRAPHIC OFFICE - NAVOCEANO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #9 Posted September 11, 2015 1960's Oceanographic System Pacific Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #10 Posted September 11, 2015 Naval Oceanography Command Detachment Keflavik, Iceland 6" patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patchcollector Posted September 11, 2015 Share #11 Posted September 11, 2015 Cool patches.I like the "Project Magnet" piece the best.Thanks for sharing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #12 Posted September 11, 2015 USNS JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS (T-AGOR-1) ex-USS SAN CARLOS (AVP-51) 1944-1947 Converted to an Oceanographic Research Vessel in 1958, decommissioned in 1971 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #13 Posted September 11, 2015 USNS JAMES M GILLISS (T-AGOR-4) pulled from a scrapbook In service since 1962, Currently on loan to Mexico since 1996 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #14 Posted September 11, 2015 USNS CHARLES H. DAVIS (T-AGOR-5) and a photo of her sister ship, USNS SANDS (T-AGOR-6) Both purpose built Robert T. Conrad Oceanographic Research Vessels - 1963 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #15 Posted September 11, 2015 T-AGOR-11 and T-AGOR-12 hat patches Still on the hunt for their ship's patches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #16 Posted September 11, 2015 ....and this one T-AGOS-11 USNS AUDACIOUS ex-USNS DAUNTLESS - Stalwart Class Ocean Surveillance Ship - Stalwart class ships were originally designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of Cold war anti-submarine warfare operations in the 1980's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #17 Posted September 11, 2015 Class Leader USNS HAYES (T-AGOR-16) ex-T-AG-195 in service 1971-2008 1970's era patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #18 Posted September 11, 2015 USS MAURY (AGS-16) ex-USS RENATE (AKA-36) Pacific surveying partner of USS SERRANO (AGS-24), tasked with charting the Mekong Delta & RVN Inland Waterways MAURY was reclassified AGS in 1946 - decommissioned in 1969, 7" high x 5" wide USS MAURY and her Southeast Asia Surveying partner USS SERRANO 1960-1961 Survey Cruise - USS MAURY & USS SERRANO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #19 Posted September 11, 2015 USS PURSUIT (AGS-17) Converted Auk class minesweeper (AM-108) in service from 1943-1960 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #20 Posted September 11, 2015 ...and another converted Auk class minesweeper USS SHELDRAKE (AGS-19) ex-AM-62 In service 1942-1968 6" patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #21 Posted September 11, 2015 Reposting this one for continuity (and I found the pre-1966 Det 1 rocker) Class leader USNS BOWDITCH (T-AGS-21) UNIT ONE USNS Bowditch T-AGS-21 was operated by the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) for the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office in the Ocean Survey Program (OSP) under direction of the U.S. Navy Office of Special Projects in support of the U.S. Navy Fleet Ballistic Missile Program. Three ships were converted for this purpose: Bowditch, and identical sister ships Dutton and Michelson. Attached aboard Bowditch was a US Navy Oceanographic Detachment, upgraded ca. May 1966 to an Oceanographic Unit, of approximately 3 officers and 22 enlisted personnel, mostly technicians. Varying numbers of civilian scientists and engineers managed survey operations, and maintained certain navigation and sonar equipment, usually about 12 oceanographers from the Naval Oceanographic Office, some personnel from the Naval Applied Sciences Laboratory, and about 7 technical representatives from private corporations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #22 Posted September 11, 2015 USNS DUTTON (T-AGS-22) OCEANOGRAPHIC UNIT TWO Bowditch class in service 1958-1980 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share #23 Posted September 11, 2015 USNS MICHELSON (T-AGS-23) Older OCEANOGRAPHIC DETACHMENT THREE patch with newer UNIT cap patch Bowditch class in service 1958-197 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 12, 2015 Author Share #24 Posted September 12, 2015 These next items are from OCEANOGRAPHIC UNIT FOUR assigned to the class leader USNS CHAUVENET (T-AGS-29) USNS CHAUVENET (T-AGS-29) In service 1970 to 1990's OCEANOGRAPHIC UNIT FOUR embarked aboard Desert Storm issue of their quarterly magazine - there's some pretty funny stuff in here, 22 pages Spring 1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted September 12, 2015 Author Share #25 Posted September 12, 2015 Not the fictitious 'Sand Pebble'..... USS SAN PABLO (AGS-30) ex-AVP-30 Barnegat class Seaplane Tender "Black Cats" Converted to hydrographic survey ship in 1948. In service until 1969 1950's 6" round patch ...and another USS SAN PABLO (AGS-30) DATA FOR DEFENSE 5 1/2" Vietnam Era Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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