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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

USNS Maury (T-AGS-39)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

National Defense Service Medal

Maury Class Hydrographic Survey Ship:

Laid down, 4 September 1986, under Maritime Administration contract (MA hull 4667), at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Sparrows Point, MD.

Launched, 4 September 1987

Delivered to the US Navy, 31 March 1989

Placed in service with the Military Sealift Command (MSC) as USNS Maury (T-AGS-39)

Placed out of service in September 1994

Transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 October 1994

Transferred by MARAD to the California Maritime Academy, 4 May 1996, renamed TS Golden Bear III

Specifications:
Displacement 9,319 t.(lt) 15,928 t.(fl)
Length 449' 10"
Beam 72'
Draft 30
Speed 20+kts
Armament none
Complement crew and scientific party, 108
Propulsion two Enterprise R5-V16 Diesel engines, single shaft, 17,000hp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USNS Maury (T-AGS-39)
	1170k	USNS Maury underway, date and location unknown.	Chris Jantsch
TS Golden Bear III
	39k	Ex-*USNS Maury* (T-AGS-39)** in the service of the California Maritime Academy as TS Golden Bear III, moored pierside at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA., date unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	107k	View looking across Carquenez Strait at the California Maritime Academy campus beyond TS Golden Bear III, moored at her dock at the California Maritime Academy in the Carquenez Strait at Vallejo, CA. Photo courtesy of PappyV.	Robert Hurst
	76k	TS Golden Bear III, moored at her dock at the California Maritime Academy in the Carquenez Strait at Vallejo, CA. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	92k	TS Golden Bear III, moored at her dock at the California Maritime Academy in the Carquenez Strait at Vallejo, CA. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	105k	TS Golden Bear III, moored at her dock at the California Maritime Academy in the Carquenez Strait at Vallejo, CA. A good view of the Carquenez Strait Bridge in the background. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	35k	TS Golden Bear III, moored at her dock at the California Maritime Academy in the Carquenez Strait at Vallejo, CA. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	34k	TS Golden Bear III.	Cal Maritime
	37k	TS Golden Bear III MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	35k	TS Golden Bear III MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	31k	TS Golden Bear III MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	45k	TS Golden Bear III MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	36k	TS Golden Bear III MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration