USS Jason
USS Burton Island (AGB-1)
USS Burton Island (AGB-1), USS Atka (AGB-3), and USS Glacier (AGB-4) pushing an iceburg out of the channel in the "Silent Land" near McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 29 December 1965
Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/g5/glacier-iv.htm
USS Burton Island (AGB-1)
How the Burton Island looked during her career, 1949-1966
Source: http://www.discoverynet.com/~greel/history.htm
USS Burton Island (AGB-1)
US Navy Auxilary Ships
Source: http://www.bluejacket.com/usn_ship_image_ad-ah.html
USS Orion AS-18
USS Orion AS-18
Commissioned on 30 September 1943, USS ORION has been modernized to service nuclear powered attack submarines and advanced electronic equipment and weapons.
Source: http://atlanticfleetsales.com/afs-pc-3.htm
USS Piedmont AD17
USS Piedmont AD17
The large one in the center.
Source: http://www.geocities.com/napaValley/4342/
USS Orion AS-18 Insignia, The insignia of the Piedmont.
USS Piedmont AD17
VANCE DER 387
VANCE DER 387
Photo Source: http://www.angelfire.com/de3/ders/vance.html
DE-387 USS Vance
Edsall class Destroyer Escort:
Displacement: 1,490 tons
Length: 306'
Beam: 36'7"
Draft: 12'3"
Speed: 21 knots
Armament: 3 3"/50, 3x3 21" torpedo tubes, 1x2 40mm, 8 20mm, 1 hedgehog, 2 depth charge tracks, 8 "K" gun projectors
Complement: 216
Geared-diesel engines, Fairbanks Morse reverse gear drive, twin screws, 12,000 shaft h.p.
Built at Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, Tex., and commissioned 1 November 1943
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/DE/DE-387_Vance.html
USS Observer MSO 461
A new wesite for Observer.
USS Observer MSO 461
Aggressive Class Minesweeper: Laid down 20 July 1953 as (AM-461) at Higgins Inc,.Shipyard, New Orleans, LA; Launched 19 October 1954; Reclassified (MSO-461), 7 February 1955; Commissioned USS Observer (MSO-461), 31 August 1955; Decommissioned (date unknown); Struck from the Naval Register 1 November 1977 Final Disposition, sold for scrapping 21 July 1979 by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Union Minerals and Alloys Corp., New York NY for $20,250
Source: http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/02461.htm
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