Tonti (T-AOG 76) Class: Photographs

USNS Piscataqua (T-AOG 80) In service with MSTS circa 1950 with a early format for the ship's name on the bow. During the 1950s and 1960s she was assigned to the MSTS Western Pacific Area (renamed the Far East Area in 1960) with Rincon and Petaluma. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)
USNS Nodaway (T-AOG 78) In service with the MSTS tanker fleet on 8 April 1953 in icy waters, probably north of Newfoundland. During the 1950s she, Tonti, and Peconic (T-AOG 68) were the three T1's in a large force of contract operated, merchant manned tankers under the operational control of MSTS headquarters that otherwise consisted of larger T2's. The three T1's were inactivated at the end of the 1950s, Nodaway later returning to service. Photo No. USN 664586(?) Source: Shipscribe
USNS Rincon (T-AOG 77) In service with MSTS Western Pacific (Far East) Area circa the mid 1950s. She never got the small funnel that was added to the other four ships in 1948 and 1950 to raise their diesel exhausts. Photo No. Unknown Source: Shipscribe
USNS Rincon (T-AOG 77) In service with MSTS Western Pacific Area on 15 February 1955. Her diesel exhaust is the short pipe at the extreme after end of the low dummy funnel, the rest of which was a deckhouse. Photo No. USN 1031931 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-80-G) and Shipscribe
USNS Tonti (T-AOG 76) In service with the MSTS tanker fleet circa the mid 1950s. Photo No. USN 1031970 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-80-G) and NHHC (MSC)
USNS Petaluma (T-AOG 79) In service with MSTS Western Pacific Area circa the mid 1950s. Photo No. USN 1031936 Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-80-G)
USNS Rincon (T-AOG 77) Shown in an uncaptioned 35mm slide before 1973 when the MSC seal began to be added to the stack but after 1963 when "U.S. Naval Ship" (barely visible here) began to replace "U.S.N.S." as the prefix to the names on all MSTS ships. Photo No. None Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (from slide)
USNS Rincon (T-AOG 77) Probably shown after 1963 when "U.S. Naval Ship" began to replace "U.S.N.S." as the prefix to the names on all MSTS ships, but before 1973 when the MSC seal began to be added to the stack. This name format had been used in the MSTS tanker fleet since 1950, in which it had replaced "U.S. Naval Tanker." Photo No. None Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (from slide)
USNS Petaluma (T-AOG 79) After 1973 with the MSC seal on her stack. She was still assigned to MSC Far East. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)
USNS Nodaway (T-AOG 78) Moored pierside without cargo at Pearl Harbor in November 1980 before the expansion of her after superstructure. She had been reactivated in 1965 and assigned to MSTS Far East with Rincon, Petaluma, and Piscataqua. She was reassigned in 1972 to MSC Pacific (probably at Honolulu) to replace Alatna (T-AOG 81). Photo by Gerhard L. Mueller-Debus. Photo No. None Source: www.aukevisser.nl/t2tanker/t-tankers-2/id369.htm, also NavSource
USNS Nodaway (T-AOG 78) With the front of her after superstructure rebuilt and expanded. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)
MV Nodaway (ex T-AOG 78) Shown as a civilian vessel wearing the tricolor stack markings for the MARAD Ready Reserve Force (red over white over blue). The photo, first posted on the MSC website in 1999, may have been taken during the sea trials that she ran in Japan on 27-28 September 1997 at the same time as Alatna, although there were other opportunities. Photo No. Unknown Source: NavSource from www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ for 10 October 1999 now on the Wayback Machine