Wheeling (T-AGM 8) 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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USNS Wheeling (T-AGM 8) The former SS Seton Hall Victory undergoing conversion to AGM 8 on 27 June 1963 at the Boland Machine & Mfg. Co., Jourdan Street Wharf, New Orleans. The big new structures are in place, including the instrumentation deckhouse forward and the hangar and flight deck aft, but much detail work remains to be done. Photo No. BUSHIPS 166063, NAID 6929906 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-NN, negatives) |
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USNS Wheeling (T-AGM 8) A stern view of the former SS Seton Hall Victory undergoing conversion to AGM 8 on 30 September 1963 at the Boland Machine & Mfg. Co., Jourdan Street Wharf, New Orleans. In this image, three months after the one above, the bottom part of the tripod mast is in place around the stack and the top half is on the flight deck awaiting installation. She is still about eight months from completion. Note the large hangar for two helicopters and the flight deck. Photo No. BUSHIPS 166623, NAID 6929909 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-NN, negatives) |
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USNS Wheeling (T-AGM 8) In the Santa Barbara channel on 12 August 1964 enroute to her home port at Port Hueneme, Calif. Her AN/FPS-16 tracking radar is in place forward but an elevated platform behind it for a second radar remains unoccupied, suggesting that her outfitting was not yet totally complete. The elaborate platform over the bridge carries a diamond-shaped lattice antenna with a small possible single element acquisition antenna below it. Photo No. KN-11237 Source: Shipscribe |
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USNS Wheeling (T-AGM 8) Underway off Point Mugu, Calif., in a photograph released by the Pacific Missile Range in December 1964. It may have been taken on the same occasion as the August 1964 photo above. At the top of the tripod mast is a large log periodic communications antenna. The function of the large circular array on top of the hangar is undetermined. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Wheeling (T-AGM 8) Photo released by the Pacific Missile Range with a press release of 29 March 1973 describing her use during that month as a mobile missile firing range between two surveillance missions off Mururoa Atoll in 1972 and 1973. The elevated platform forward is now occupied by an antenna and the diamond-shaped lattice antenna over the bridge has been replaced with a larger lattice dish. The circular array over the hangar is now covered. Note the probable instrumentation van on the flight deck. Photo No. NH 102106 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USNS Wheeling (T-AGM 8) Photo published in the report of the aerial radiological and photographic survey of the Northern Marshall Islands conducted by the ship and two embarked SH-3G helicopters between mid-September and mid-November 1978. Compared to the image above a third dish antenna has been added between the two on the forward instrumentation deckhouse. This antenna is also present on a small photo of the ship taken during a recreational port call at Pago Pago, American Samoa, during the Mururoa Atoll operations in 1972 or 1973. This was probably the ship's final configuration. Photo No. None Source: www.osti.gov/biblio/5801343, page 15 |
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