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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

T-AGS-29 Chauvenet

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Yankee - Golf - Golf

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon
Bottom Row - National Defense Service Medal - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)

Chauvenet Class Hydrographic Survey Ship:

Laid down, 24 May 1967, at Upper Clyde Shipbuilding Corp., Glasgow, Scotland

Launched, 13 May 1968

Delivered to the US Navy, 13 November 1970 and placed in service with the Military Sealift Command (MSC) as USNS Chauvenet (T-AGS-29)

Placed out of service and struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)

Title transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet

Converted to a training ship for Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX., in 1999 and renamed TS Texas Clipper II

To be replaced by TS Texas Clipper III ex-Sirius (AFS-8) mid July 2005

Ex-Chauvenet was used to house Hurricane Rita recovery workers/evacuees from September 2005-March 2006

Released from hurricane work and towed to a shipyard, 18 March 2006, for reactivation and conversion as the DOD Missile Defense Agency's Missile Instrumentation Ship Pacific Collector

Specifications:
Displacement 5,360 t.
Length 393' 2"
Beam 54'
Draft 31'
Propulsion two ALCO 251 V-12 diesel engines, single shaft, 3,400shp.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USNS Chauvenet (T-AGS-29)
	66k	*USNS Chauvenet* (T-AGS-29)** underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo	Ramon Jackson
	44k	*USNS Chauvenet* (T-AGS-29)** underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo	Ramon Jackson
	73k	*USNS Chauvenet* (T-AGS-29)** underway, date and place unknown. US Navy photo from DANFS.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
TS Texas Clipper II
	37k	ex-Chauvenet (T-AGS-29) in service as TS Texas Clipper II underway, date and place unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	11k	ex-Chauvenet (T-AGS-29) in service as TS Texas Clipper II moored, date and place unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	52k	ex-Chauvenet (T-AGS-29) in service as TS Texas Clipper II moored, date and place unknown.	Texas A&M University, Galveston
	12k	ex-Chauvenet (T-AGS-29) in service as TS Texas Clipper II underway with a tug assisting	Texas A&M University, Galveston
	71k	ex-Chauvenet (T-AGS-29) in service as TS Texas Clipper II moored pierside at Le Havre, France, 16 July 1999.	Photo & Collection Paolo Marsan
	27k	ex-Chauvenet (T-AGS-29) in service as TS Texas Clipper II moored, date and place unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	48k	ex-Chauvenet (T-AGS-29) in service as TS Texas Clipper II moored, date and place unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	33k	ex-Sirius (T-AFS-8) alongside ex-Chauvenet (T-AGS-29) in service as TS Texas Clipper II at Galveston, date unknown.	TJ Tropea RM1 USN Ret.
Pacific Collector
	153k	ex-Ex-*Texas Clipper II* ex-Chauvenet (T-AGS-29) in service as the Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency's ship *Pacific Collector* at her new homeport, Alameda, CA., 5 September 2006.	Andrew Diamond
	148k	*Pacific Collector* at her new homeport, Alameda, CA., 5 September 2006.	Andrew Diamond
	122k	*Pacific Collector* at her new homeport, Alameda, CA., 6 September 2006.	Andrew Diamond
	71k	*Pacific Collector* at her new homeport, Alameda, CA., 6 September 2006.	Andrew Diamond
	68k	*Pacific Collector* at her new homeport, Alameda, CA., 6 September 2006.	Andrew Diamond
	47k	*Pacific Collector* at her new homeport, Alameda, CA., 6 September 2006.	Andrew Diamond
	43k	*Pacific Collector* at her new homeport, Alameda, CA., 6 September 2006.	Andrew Diamond
	95k	*Pacific Collector* passing under the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco as she heads out to sea in May 2007.	Bob Miller