Alatna (T-AOG 81) 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 Alatna (T-AOG 81) Heading for sea in a MSTS Atlantic Area photo later backstamped 31 July 1957. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USNS Chattachochee (T-AOG 82) At the U.S Naval Station, Argentia, Newfoundland, on 28 April 1958 while supporting construction of the DEW Line. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Alatna (T-AOG 81) Pumping fuel ashore through a hose on the ice, probably during DEW line support in the Arctic in the late 1950s. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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USNS Chattachochee (T-AOG 82) In Winter Quarters Bay, McMurdo Station, Antarctica, in January 1965 during Operation Deep Freeze '65. Photo No. K-32925 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USNS Alatna (T-AOG 81) Approaching Winter Quarters Bay, McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on 19 December 1965. She was the first supply ship to arrive there during Operation Deep Freeze '66. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file and MSC) |
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USNS Alatna (T-AOG 81) Arriving at Winter Quarters Bay, McMurdo Station, Antarctica, on 17 December 1966 for Deep Freeze '67. Photo No. K-35781 Source: Shipscribe |
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USNS Alatna (T-AOG 81) Underway off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, on 7 April 1969. Her heavy foremast for Arctic operations has been replaced with a light pole, a change also applied to her sister. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file) |
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USNS Alatna (T-AOG 81) Underway off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, on 7 April 1969. Note the absence of the MSC seal on the stack, which did not come into use until around 1973. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (UA-283) |
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USNS Chattahoochee (T-AOG 82) With the MSC seal on the stack under the MSC tricolor stack markings (grey over blue over yellow). The seal began to appear on other MSC ships in around 1973, suggesting that this photo dates from her period of service in 1982-1984. Photo No. Unknown Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC) |
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MV Alatna (ex T-AOG 81) Shown in 1985 or later wearing the tricolor stack markings for the MARAD Ready Reserve Force (red over white over blue) instead of those for MSC ships. The photo, first posted on the MSC website in 1999, may have been taken during the sea trials that she ran on 27-28 September 1997, although such trials had probably been run periodically since 1985. Photo No. Unknown Source: www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ for 10 October 1999 now on the Wayback Machine |
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MV Chattahoochee (ex T-AOG 82) Shown in 1985 or later with markings as Alatna, above. The photo may have been taken during the sea trials that she ran on 26-28 March 1997 although there were probably earlier opportunities. The inscriptions on her stern no longer bear the designation U.S. Naval Ship but instead designate a home port, indicating her civilian status while in the RRF. Photo No. Unknown Source: www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ for 10 October 1999 now on the Wayback Machine |
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