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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

USNS Tanner (T-AGS-40)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Tango - November - Romeo
NTNR

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

National Defense Service Medal

Maury Class Hydrographic Survey Ship:

Laid down, 22 February 1986, under a Maritime Administration contract at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Sparrows Point, MD. Launched 28 February 1989

Delivered to the US Navy, 31 August 1990

Placed in service with the Military Sealift Command (MSC) as USNS Tanner (T-AGS-40)

Placed out of service in 1993

Transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA.

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 October 1993

Transferred by MARAD to the Maine Maritime Academy, 1 November 1995, renamed TS State of Maine

Specifications:
Displacement 9,319 t.(lt) 15,928 t.(fl)
Length 449' 10"
Beam 72'
Draft 30
Speed 20+kts.
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 Tanner (T-AGS-40) III
09104013	158k	*USNS Tanner* (T-AGS-40)** shipbuilders plate. Photo taken 10 July 2009. Photo by Bruce C. Cooper, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, Wikipedia.	Robert Hurst
	58k	*USNS Tanner* (T-AGS-40)** laid up in the James River Reserve Fleet, Fort Eustis, VA., date unknown.	Peter Westdijk
TS State of Maine
	12k	Ex-*USNS Tanner* (T-AGS-40)** in service as the training ship TS State of Maine anchored off Turtle Head, Islesboro, in Penobscot Bay Maine in 1996. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
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	24k	TS State of Maine underway, date and location unknown. MARAD photo	Maine Maritime Academy
	39k	TS State of Maine moored at her berth at the Maine Maritime Academy, date unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	68k	TS State of Maine underway, date and location unknown.	Robert Hurst
	68k	TS State of Maine moored pierside, Marseille, France, 14 June 1999	Photo by Guy Schaeffer, Collection of Paolo Marsan
	267k	TS State of Maine underway in the Kiel Canal , 4 June 2010 while on her European Cruise.	Photo by Peter Ruud
	204k	TS State of Maine moored in her berth at the Maine Maritime Academy, date unknown. Library of Congress, Photo No. LC-HS503-6442	Mike Green
09104012	119k	TS State of Maine docked at her home port, Castine, Maine, 10 July 2009. Photo by Bruce C. Cooper, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, Wikipedia.	Robert Hurst
09104011	206k	TS State of Maine arriving in upper Penobscot Bay at the Searsport anchorage on the afternoon of 13 July 2018, after a 13 day voyage from Alicante, Spain to complete her nine-and-a-half week 2018 summer North Atlantic training cruise which included port visits in Cadiz (Spain), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Lisbon (Portugal), Civitavecchia (Italy) and Alicante. Photo by Bruce C. Cooper, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, Wikipedia.	Robert Hurst