American Mariner (T-AGM 12) 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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USMSTS American Mariner (later T-AGM 12) Serving as a U. S. Maritime Service Training Ship, probably after World War II and with the service's insignia on the stack. She was essentially in this configuration when she called at Kings Point in March 1950, except that by then she had acquired a radar mast just forward of the stack and had a clean white coat of paint. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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USAOS American Mariner (later T-AGM 12) Shown as a U.S. Army Ordnance Ship (note stack markings) in her original configuration for the DAMP program with two small AN/FPQ-4 antennas and no large UHF/L-band radar. Two slaved instrument pedestals are aft of each FPQ-4 and a radiosonde dish pointed up is aft of the stack. She has no air search radar. The logo for RCA, the prime contractor for the DAMP program, is in the bottom left corner. Photo No. None Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC). RCA photo |
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USAOS American Mariner (later T-AGM 12) Shown after addition in 1961 of a large UHF/L-band radar dish behind the stack and the fitting of larger AN/FPQ-4 dishes. Antennas fore to aft are an AN/SPS-12 air search radar on a tall mast forward of the stack, a large UHF/L-band radar dish slaved to the two AN/FPQ-4 C-band radars on each side behind it, a telemetry acquisition aid between these, two slaved instrument pedestals aft of each FPQ-4, a radiosonde dish pointed up aft of the starboard pedestals with MK-51 optical directors to port, a radar shield protecting these, and a balloon launch area on the fantail. Photo No. None Source: Hahn. U.S. Army Photo by RCA Missile and Surface Radar Division |
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USNS American Mariner (T-AGM 12) Under MSTS operation in restricted waters in her 1961 configuration. Photo No. Unknown Source: Shipscribe |
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ex-USNS American Mariner (T-AGM 12) Photographed by the Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, Md. after being scuttled in October 1966 by Underwater Demolition Team 22 as a replacement target vessel for USS Hannibal (AG 1) off Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay. She still retained (probably only briefly) the large UHF/L-band dish. Photo No. NH 89099 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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ex-USNS American Mariner (T-AGM 12) This photo was forwarded by John Warren to a friend in 2012 with the comment that it was a target ship for Navy jets near where he fished in Chesapeake Bay. Her materiel condition has been much degraded since the early target photo above. Photo No. None Source: Shipscribe |
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