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Glomar Explorer (AG 193) Class: Photographs

These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive.

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MV Hughes Glomar Explorer

At her pier at Long Beach, California, on 13 June 1976.

Photo No. None
Source: Wikimedia Commons, photo by Ted Quackenbush

  MV Hughes Glomar Explorer on 13 June 1976
MV Hughes Glomar Explorer

This painting representing Project AZORIAN is displayed in one of CIA's corridors with other paintings of key events in the Agency's history which, while not open to the public, are shown to uncleared visitors as well as employees. It clearly shows the grabber on the capture vehicle that failed, dropping much of the submarine back to the ocean floor.

Photo No. None
Source: CIA on Twitter, 5 June 2019. See also https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/honoring-the-mission-of-project-azorian/

  CIA painting representing MV Hughes Glomar Explorer in Project AZORIAN
USS Glomar Explorer (AG 193)

Laid up in Suisun Bay circa 1977. The photo was donated to the Naval Historical Center in 1978.

Photo No. NH 86340
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

  USS Glomar Explorer (AG 193) circa 1977
USS Glomar Explorer (AG 193)

Laid up in Suisun Bay circa 1977. The photo was donated to the Naval Historical Center in 1978.

Photo No. NH 86339
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

  USS Glomar Explorer (AG 193) circa 1977
USS Glomar Explorer (AG 193)

Photographed by Mark Wertheimer of the Naval Historical Center in Suisun Bay on 10 May 1996. She is moored away from the other ships of the reserve fleet for unknown reasons.

Photo No. None
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)

  USS Glomar Explorer (AG 193) on 10 May 1996
MV GSF Explorer

The photo was posted on Facebook by Exline Inc. on 12 June 2013 with the comment that "This is the "GSF Explorer" that is based in Singapore. We send crews out periodically to perform maintenance tasks on the Nordberg engines." The photo cuts off the top third of the ship's drilling rig. The panel on the rig bears the names Transocean (her owner since 2007) and GSF Explorer.

Photo No. None
Source: Facebook (Exline Inc.)

  MV GSF Explorer circa 2013