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USNS Range Tracker (T-AGM-1)
ex
 USNS Range Tracker (T-AG-160)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Lima - Oscar - Oscar
 NLOO
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

National Defense Service Medal
Ranger Tracker Class Missile Range Instrumentation Ship:
  • Laid down, 6 April 1945, as SS 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 SS 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 Range 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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    USNS Range Tracker (T-AG-160)
    Range Tracker 251k Port quarter view of USNS Range Tracker (T-AG-160) underway, 4 May 1961, location unknown.
    US National Archives, Catalog No. USN 1054593    		 Mike Green
    USNS Range Tracker (T-AGM-1)
    Range Tracker 31k USNS Range Tracker (T-AGM-1) underway, date and location unknown. Gunter Krebs
    Range Tracker 60k USNS Range Tracker (T-AGM-1) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1962    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Range Tracker 99k USNS Range Tracker (T-AGM-1) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Robert Hurst
    Range Tracker 267k USNS Range Tracker (T-AGM-1) underway, 7 June 1963, location unknown.
    US National Arch vies Photo # USN 1091935    		 US Naval History and Heritage Command
    USNS Range Tracker (T-AGM-1)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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