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96k | Plainview (AGEH-1) as planned. Drawing by A.D. Baker from U.S. Small Combatants: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman |
Robert Hurst | |
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101k | Plainview (AGEH-1) keel laying ceremony at Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, WA., 8 May 1964.
Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company - Museum of History & Industry, Seattle |
Michael Mohl | |
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102k | Plainview (AGEH-1) under construction at Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, WA. in May 1964.
Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company - Museum of History & Industry, Seattle |
Michael Mohl | |
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114k | Plainview (AGEH-1) under construction in a drydock at Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, WA. in 1964
Museum of History & Industry, Seattle |
Tommy Trampp | |
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82k | Plainview (AGEH-1) on the building ways, at Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, WA, circa 1966. US Navy photo. |
Robert Hurst | |
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38k | Plainview (AGEH-1) in flight in Elliot Bay, Seattle, WA. The ship was returning from sea trials enroute back to the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, WA yard on the Duwamish waterway. circa late 1967 or 1968. US Navy photo. |
International Hydrofoil Society web page | |
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37k | Plainview (AGEH-1) with her foils raised at her moorings near Seattle, WA., circa 1966. US Navy photo. |
Robert Hurst | |
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44k | Plainview (AGEH-1) moored with hydrofoils retracted in Elliot Bay with downtown Seattle in the background, 1966. | Larry Lee | |
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276k | Plainview (AGEH-1) lifts her hull from the waters of Puget Sound during tests by her builder, Lockheed Shipbuilding and
Construction Co., Seattle, WA. 20 June 1968.
US National Archives, Photo # USN 1131877-A, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Mike Green | |
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147k | Plainview (AGEH-1), the world’s largest hydrofoil vessel, lifts its hull from the waters of Puget Sound during tests by the builder,
Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company, Seattle, WA., 20 June 1968.
National Museum of the U.S. Navy, US Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph Collection. 428-GX-USN 1131878 |
Robert Hurst | |
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118k | Plainview (AGEH-1) underway, circa 1969.
US National Archives Identifier (NAID) 6929649, a U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Robert Hurst | |
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243k | Plainview (AGEH-1) underway in Puget Sound at 15.5 knots, 5 February 1969.
US National Archives Identifier (NAID) 6929649. a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo |
Robert Hurst | |
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301k | Plainview (AGEH-1) underway, 5 February 1969, testing out her top speed of 40 knots. This photo was taken one month before
being placed in service at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
Puget Sound Navy Museum |
Mike Green | |
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26k | Plainview (AGEH-1) underway at slow speed, circa 1973.
U.S. Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine July 1973, p. 4 |
Robert Hurst | |
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91k | Plainview (AGEH-1) underway on trial runs in Puget Sound with Mt. Rainier in background, the craft’s regular operating area, circa 1973.
U.S. Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine July 1973, p. 2 |
Robert Hurst | |
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80k | Plainview (AGEH-1) underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, July 1973. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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46k | Plainview (AGEH-1) underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Tommy Trampp | |
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164k | Plainview (AGEH-1) under way in Puget Sound, July 1978.
US National Archives, Photo # K-120791, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Mike Green | |
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98k | Plainview (AGEH-1) (above) and High Point (PCH-1)
under way in Puget Sound in July 1978.
US National Archives Photo # K-120787, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Robert Hurst | |
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335k | The remains of ex-Plainview (AGEH-1) resting on a mud flat in the Columbia River across from Astoria Oregon, circa 2013.
Photo by Katwilphoto |
Robert Hurst | |
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34k | The remains of ex-Plainview (AGEH-1) resting on a mud flat in the Columbia River across from Astoria Oregon, circa 2013. | Keith S. Dale | |
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| Plainview Additional Ships Patches |
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 Contributed by Mike Smolinski |
 Contributed by Allan W. Connelly, Plainview 1978 |
| Officers in Charge | ||
| 01 | LT. Duich, Stephen James, USN (USNA 1961) | 17 December 1969 - 9 July 1970 |
| 02 | LT. Erickson, William John, USN (USNA 1965) | 9 July 1970 - July 1973 |
| 03 | LT. Wollen, Edmund B. | July 1973 - 1974 |
| 04 | LT. Hudson Jr., Frank W. | 1974 - 1976 |
| 05 | LT. Ackley, Vic H. | 1976 - 22 September 1978 |
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