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T-AGS-22 Dutton


Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Quebec - Yankee - Foxtrot
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
National Defense Service Medal
Bowditch Class Hydrographic Survey Ship:
  • Laid down, 27 March 1945, as SS Tuskegee Victory, a Maritime Commission type (VC-2-AP2) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MCV-682), at Oregon Shipbuilding Corp., Portland, OR.
  • Launched,
  • Delivered to the Maritime Commission for commercial service, 6 May 1945, and placed in service by Weyerhaeuser SS Co.
  • Leased to Shepard SS Co., 29 June 1946
  • Leased to South Atlantic SS. Co., 22 April 1949
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont TX., 16 May 1949
  • Leased to South Atlantic SS. Co., 16 February 1951
  • Chartered to Orion Shipping & Trading Co., 16 March 1951
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Lee Hall, VA., 24 September 1953
  • Assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS), 5 November 1957
  • Place in service as USNS Dutton (T-AGS-22), 1 November 1958
  • Placed out of service and struck from the Naval Register, 12 September 1989
  • Title transfer to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, TX.
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,420 t.(lt) 13,050 t.(fl)
    Length 455'
    Beam 62'
    Draft 23
    Speed 16 kts.
    Propulsion cross compound steam turbine with double reduction gear, 6,000 to 8,500hp
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    Dutton 55k Dutton (T-AGS-22) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Carl R Friberg Jr, USNS Dutton
    Dutton 47k Dutton (T-AGS-22) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from DANFS.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Dutton 59k Dutton (T-AGS-22) moored pierside at Bremerhaven, Germany, June 1968. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Keathley 84k Dutton (T-AGS-22) and Sgt. George E. Keathley (T-AGS-35) moored, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Carl R Friberg Jr., USNS Sgt George E Keathley
    Dutton 34k Dutton (T-AGS-22) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Rick O'Hara
    Dutton 128k Naval Oceanographic Office "Bulletin", September-October 1989 cover photo of the deactivation ceremony for Dutton (T-AGS-21) at Gulfport, MS., 12 September 1989. Ramon Jackson
    Dutton 188k Naval Oceanographic Office "Bulletin", September-October 1989, page 7. featuring an article describing Dutton (T-AGS-21)'s service as an MSC Survey Ship. Ramon Jackson
    Dutton 37k Patch for Naval Oceanographic Unit 2 embarked in Dutton (T-AGS-21) Mike Smolinski
    Dutton 63k Ex-Dutton (T-AGS-21) being removed from the Reserve Fleet anchorage at Beaumont, TX. on her way to the breakers yard, date unknown. Eric Bailey
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