Robert D Conrad (AGOR 3) 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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SCB Project 185 (AGOR 3) An artist's rendering signed by Hultberg from a brochure produced in accordance with a request from CNO Burke to issue descriptive summaries of new ships at the completion of their preliminary designs. This brochure was dated 15 December 1958. Photo No. None Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19, Entry P 26, box 15) |
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R/V Robert D Conrad (AGOR 3) On builder's trials off Jacksonville, Fla., circa fall 1962. Photo No. BUSHIPS 165009, NAID 6930452 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-NN, negatives) |
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R/V Robert D Conrad (AGOR 3) Photographed in November 1962 around the time of her entry into service. Photo No. USN 1065689 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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R/V Robert D Conrad (AGOR 3) Port side view of the ship, probably early in her career, with the markings and name that she carried during her career as a UNOLS ship with the Lamont Geological Observatory, which lasted to 1989. Photo No. None (Postcard) Source: Shipscribe |
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USNS James M Gilliss (T-AGOR 4) Starboard quarter view taken during trials on 5 November 1962 by photographer Herb Reynolds for the builder, Christy Corp. of Sturgeon Bay, Wisc. Photo No. NAID 6930483 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-NN, negatives) |
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USNS James M Gilliss (T-AGOR 4) Photographed on 14 December 1962 soon after her entry into service with MSTS. Photo No. Illegible (probably USN) Source: Shipscribe |
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USNS James M Gilliss (T-AGOR 4) Port side view around the time of her entry into service. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Charles H Davis (T-AGOR 5) Starboard side view processed by the MSTS Pacific Area photo lab at San Francisco on 24 June 1963, five months after her entry into service. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Charles H Davis (T-AGOR 5) From an undated print (possibly made on 4 January 1964) by the MSTS Pacific Area photo lab in Oakland, Calif. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Charles H Davis (T-AGOR 5) Later in her career with her name instead of her hull number on the bow. The MSTS service of this ship and T-AGOR 4 in support of Navy laboratories was cut short in late 1969 by budget cuts although the ships saw further service elsewhere. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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R/V James M Gilliss (AGOR 4) Operating for the University of Miami before or during the GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) of 1974. James M Gilliss was inactivated by MSTS in a budget cut in 1969 and was loaned in 1970 to the University of Miami for use as a UNOLS ship. Several equipment modifications aft of the stack are visible here although she still has her original large stack and pole mainmast. Photo No. None Source: www.flickr.com/photos/ncararchives/9352979094/ in/photostream/ |
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R/V Robert D Conrad (AGOR 3) Photographed in 1980, still in use by the Lamont Geological Observatory as a UNOLS ship. The front end of the stack has been cut back and the maimmast has become an elaborate tripod with numerous antennas. Photo No. None (credit Henry Chezar) Source: lamont.columbia.edu/research-divisions/marine-large-programs/office-marine-operations/ship-history |
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ARM Altair (BI-03) Ex James M Gilliss (AGOR 4). Rated by the Mexican Navy (ARM) as a Buque de Investigación Oceanográfica (Multipropósito). This photo was posted on Twitter by the office of the Mexican Secretary of the Navy on 25 October 2021. The front end of the stack has been cut back and the mainmast has become an elaborate tripod as in Conrad, above, but any antennas that may have been on it have been removed. Photo No. None Source: Twitter (@SEMAR_mx) |
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HMNZS Tui Ex Charles H Davis (AGOR 5). Photo courtesy of the Torpedo Bay Navy Museum at Aukland, New Zealand. Tui was formally commissioned for RNZN service on 11 September 1970, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York. The prime user of the ship was the Defence Scientific Establishment, but she frequently worked for other institutions, such as the Universities of Auckland and Hawaii and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. She was paid off on 18 February 1998. She retained her original large stack and pole mainmast to the end of her career. Photo No. None Source: navymuseum.co.nz/explore/by-collections/ships/tui-oceanographic-vessel/ |
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