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USS Edisto (AG-89) Underway off Point Vincente near San Pedro, California, on 13 March 1947. Although designed to carry two 5"/38 twin mounts, she and her sister were completed after World War II with one single 5"/38 mount forward and a helicopter deck aft. Photo No. USN 371216 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Burton Island (AG-88) Operating in ice before her designation was changed to AGB-1 in January 1949. Note the helicopter on deck aft. Photo No. Unknown Source: Shipscribe |
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USS Edisto (AGB-2) Underway on 22 January 1953. Photo No. USN 477319 Source: Shipscribe |
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USS Burton Island (AGB-1) Off Nome, Alaska, in May 1954 during a spring cruise to the Arctic. She has put a gangway over the side for a liberty party. Photo No. USN 641186 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Edisto (AGB-2) Photographed in January or February 1965 while supporting the construction of Palmer Station on Anvers Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula during Operation Deep Freeze. During the 1950s a large air search radar was mounted on the former fire control platform over the bridge and her other electronic systems were redistributed. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Burton Island (AGB-1) Fighting heavy ice while bringing supplies to the scientific station at Cape Hallette, Antarctica, in early 1964 during Operation Deepfreeze. To contend with fifteen-foot thick ice blocking her route, she placed charges of TNT in holes drilled in the ice around the ship and then applied full power to her six diesel-electric engines as the charges were detonated. Photo No. USN 823888 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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