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USS San Diego (AFS-6)
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San Diego (AFS-6) launching, 13 April 1968, at National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA.
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Bill Gonyo |
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USS San Diego (AFS-6) underway at San Diego as she departs for her new homeport at Norfolk, VA., date unknown.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, October 1969. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. |
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USS San Diego (AFS-6) underway, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
Tom Langford |
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USS San Diego (AFS-6) being docked/undocked with the help of Marinette (YTB-791) and Oshkosh (YTB-751) at Naval Station Norfolk, VA, date unknown.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, October 1972 |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. |
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USS San Diego (AFS-6) at anchor, date and location unknown. |
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USS San Diego (AFS-6) Med-moored in the port of Genoa, Italy, 22 April 1975. |
Photo by Carlo Martinelli |
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USS San Diego (AFS-6) underway, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo |
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USS San Diego (AFS-6) at Barcelona, Spain, 29 March 1983. Note, by this time San Diego's armament had been modified, retaining only the two enclosed twin 3"/50 gun mounts forward, while removing the two open mounts abaft the stack (note the empty gun tubs), along with the Mk.56 GFCS and an SPS-40 air search radar. |
Photo by Fabio Peņa |
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USS San Diego (AFS-6) at Barcelona, Spain, 29 March 1983. |
Photo by Fabio Peņa |
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USS San Diego (AFS-6) at Barcelona, Spain, 29 March 1983. |
Photo by Fabio Peņa |
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(from right to left) USS Sylvania (AFS-2), USS Concord (AFS-5) and USS San Diego (AFS-6) underway, date and location unknown. |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. |
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USNS Sirius (T-AFS-8) downloading to USS San Diego (AFS-6) while underway, circa 1983. USNS Sirius was returning to the US to undergo a yard period at Braswell Shipyard in South Carolina, at which time she was converted to a fully capable AFS, receiving her helo hanger and enhanced unrep carnalities.
US Navy photo |
T.J. Tropea RM1 USN USNS Sirius |
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USNS Sirius (T-AFS-8) downloading to USS San Diego (AFS-6) while underway, circa 1983 prior to Sirius entering Braswell Shipyard, South Carolina to improve her unrep capabilities.
US Navy photo |
T.J. Tropea RM1 USN USNS Sirius |
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USNS Sirius (T-AFS-8) downloading to USS San Diego (AFS-6) while underway, circa 1983, prior Sirius to entering Braswell Shipyard, South Carolina to improve her unrep capabilities.
US Navy photo |
T.J. Tropea RM1 USN USNS Sirius |
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USNS Sirius (T-AFS-8) downloading to USS San Diego (AFS-6) while underway, circa 1983, prior to Sirius entering Braswell Shipyard, South Carolina to improve her unrep capabilities.
US Navy photo |
T.J. Tropea RM1 USN Ret. USNS Sirius |
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USNS Sirius (T-AFS-8) downloading to USS San Diego (AFS-6) while underway, circa 1983, prior to Sirius entering Braswell Shipyard, South Carolina to improve her unrep capabilities.
US Navy photo |
T.J. Tropea RM1 USN Ret. USNS Sirius |
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USS San Diego (AFS-6) underway, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo |
Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. |
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Starboard bow view of USS San Diego (AFS-6) underway off Cape Henry, VA., 22 March 1988.
DoDMedia VIRIN: DN-SC-90-02296, a US Navy photo by PH2 T, Beveridge |
Robert Hurst |
USNS San Diego (T-AFS-6)
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Ex-USNS San Diego (T-AFS-6), ex- USS Boulder (LST-1190) and ex-USS Kidd (DDG-993) moored at the Preble Wharf at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in November 1999. Photo from "Warship Boneyards" by Kit and Carolyn Bonner, authors collection. |
Robert Hurst |
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Ex-USNS San Diego (T-AFS-6) moored at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA., 22 October 2004. |
Gil Bohannon, USS Torsk Historian |
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Ex-USNS San Diego (T-AFS-6) at ESCO, Brownsville, TX., awaiting scrapping, circa May 2006.
Photo ©Michael Martin Brownsville, TX., 2006. |
TJ Tropea with permission of Michael Martin |
