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54k | USS Grasp (ARS-51) underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
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71k | USS Grasp (ARS-51) underway, 16 October 1985. US Navy photo # 851016-N-00000-001 |
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94k | USS Grasp (ARS-51) moored pierside at Palma de Mallorca, Spain in November 1991. | Photo by Pedro Vidal | |
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55k | USS Grasp (ARS-51) anchored over the crash site of TWA Flight 800 offshore of Moriches Inlet, Long Island, N.Y., she it conducts diving operations, 25 July 25, 1996. Navy divers conducted dives to recover victims of the crash and parts of the airplane to aid in the investigation. US DOD photo # 960725-N-6676W-026 by AN Charles L. Withrow. |
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107k | USS Grasp (ARS-51) anchored over the crash site of TWA Flight 800 offshore of Moriches Inlet, Long Island, N.Y., she it conducts diving operations, 25 July 25, 1996. DOD photo |
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30k | USS Grasp (ARS-51) moored pierside, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
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70k | USS Grasp (ARS-51) moored pierside at Barcelona, Spain, 1 January 1992 | Photo by Ignacio Lopez ex member Armada Espanola |
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97k | USS Grasp (ARS-51) underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
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47k | USS Grasp (ARS-51) moored at Naples, Italy, in June 1996. | Wendell McLaughlin | |
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96k | USS Grasp (ARS-51) gets underway, 18 July 1999, as her mooring lines are cast off by sailors assigned to the Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek port operations. USS Grasp assisted in search and recovery efforts for a private plane flown by John F. Kennedy Jr. and carrying his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and his sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette. The aircraft crashed July 17 off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass US Navy photo # 990718-N-6967M-006 by PH2 Shane T. McCoy. |
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66k | USS Grasp (ARS-51) pulls into the Taranto Naval Base Mar Grande to participate in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) submarine escape and rescue exercise Sorbet Royal 2005, 17 June 2005. USS Grasp transported the Atmospheric Diving System 2000 (ADS 2000), Submarine Rescue Chamber Eight (SRC 8) along with members of the U.S. Navy's deep submergence unit. Twenty-seven participating nations, including 14 NATO nations will test their capabilities and interoperability. Four submarines with up to 52 crew members aboard will be placed on the bottom of the ocean, while rescue forces with rescue vehicles and systems work together to solve complex disaster rescue problems.
US Navy photo # 050617-N-1464F-001 by JOC Dave Fliesen. |
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| USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) |
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318k | During her decommissioning and transfer ceremony, 19 January 2006, MSC commander VADM. David L. Brewer III, USN, welcomes USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) to the MSC fleet. US Navy Military Sealift Command photo by Bill Cook. |
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55k | USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) tows ex-USS Des Moines (CA-134) up the Brownsville ship channel enroute to the ESCO scrapping yard, at Brownsville, TX., circa 2006. Photo ©Michael Martin, Brownsville, TX., 2006. |
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872k | USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) tows ex-USS Des Moines (CA-134) up the Brownsville ship channel enroute to the ESCO scrapping yard, at Brownsville, TX., circa 2006. US Navy photo from the Military Sealift Command collection. |
Bill Gonyo | |
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803k | USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) berthed pierside in St John's Antigua, 16 July 2008. | Curtis A. Smith, Captain, Civilian, USNS Grasp | |
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2328k | USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) tows the NR-1 for the last time in January 2009. NR-1 is being laid up after over 40 years of service. See the Sealift magazine, February 2009 story "Grasp tows NR-1, MSC plays pivotal role in famous subs final days" by Rosemary Heiss MSC Public Affairs |
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1645k | USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) arrives at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to put on stores and refuel while en route to provide humanitarian aid and disaster relief to Haiti. Grasp was diverted from its mission to assist with relief efforts following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. US Navy photo # 100117-N-8241M-088 GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (Jan. 17, 2010) by MCC Bill MestaBill Mesta. |
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| Commanding Officers | |
| LCDR Service, Thomas Buchanan | 14 December 1985 - 13 March 1987 |
| LCDR Gibson, James H. | 13 March 1987 - 9 June 1989 |
| LCDR Herb, Michael Curtis | 9 June 1989 - 9 August 1991 |
| LCDR Millsap, Vernon B. | 9 August 1991 - 10 December 1993 |
| LCDR Hill, Steven Jeffrey | 10 December 1993 - 4 August 1995 |
| LCDR Orr, William Parker | 4 August 1995 - 20 June.1997 |
| LCDR Harrell, Ronald Lee | 20 June 1997 - 19 March 1999 |
| LCDR Anderson, Eric B. | 19 March 1999 - 30 March 2001 |
| LCDR Hedberg, Kurt E. | 30 March 2001 - 3 June 2003 |
| LCDR Moum, Brian C. | 3 June 2003 - 19 January 2006 |
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