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T-AG-160 / T-AGM-1 Range Tracker

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National Defense Service Medal
Ranger Tracker Class Missile Range Instrumentation Ship:
  • Laid down, 6 April 1945, as Skidmore Victory, a Maritime Commission type (VC2-S-AP3) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 685) at Oregon Shipbuilding Corp., Portland, OR.
  • Delivered to Northland Transportation, 18 June 1945, later served American President Lines as President Buchanan
  • Delivered to the Maritime Commission (date unknown) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • Acquired by the US Navy in the late 1950s and assigned to the Military Sealift Command (MSC)
  • Converted to a Missile Range Instrumentation Ship at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS.
  • Placed in service as Miscellaneous Unclassified USNS Ranger Tracker (T-AG-160), 12 July 1960
  • Redesignated Missile Range Instrumentation Ship (T-AGM-1), 27 November 1960
  • Placed out of service, 27 September 1969, at Port Hueneme. CA.
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration, 12 November 1969, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 28 April 1970
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 10 July 1970, to American Ship Dismantlers, Inc.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,512 t.(lt) 11,500t.(fl)
    Length 455' 3"
    Beam 62' 2"
    Draft 28' 6"
    Speed 15.5 kts.
    Armament none
    Complement 56
    Propulsion cross compound steam turbine, single screw, 8,500shp
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    Range Tracker 31k Range Tracker (T-AGM-1) underway, date and place unknown. Gunter Krebs
    Range Tracker 60k Range Tracker (T-AGM-1) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1962    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    View the Range Tracker (T-AGM-1)
    DANFS History entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
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