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List Of Ships Of The United States Air Force
Starting in 1957 the US Air Force began operating a small fleet of Missile Range Instrumentation Ships to support missile test ranges. They were designated "ORV" for Ocean Range Vessel. They used the ship name prefix "USAF" (''e.g.'': USAF ''Coastal Crusader'' (ORV-16)). Other ships would use the prefix "USAFS", for "United States Air Force Ship". The initial twelve Atlantic Missile Range ships were modified World War II cargo vessels. Six were FS-type ships and six were C1-M-AV-1 vessels. All were equipped with telemetry systems. Two of the C1-M-AV-1 types, ''Coastal Sentry'' and ''Rose Knot'', were equipped with command/control transmitters. The smaller FS types were retired by 1960. On 1 July 1964 the USAF tracking ships were transferred to the custody of the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) for operation. (In 1970, the MSTS changed its name to Military Sealift Command (MSC).) The ships were redesignated from USAFS to USNS, along with the hull code "AGM", eg: USAF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drone Recovery Ships Of The U
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Type C1 Ship
Type C1 was a designation for small cargo ships built for the United States Maritime Commission before and during World War II. Total production was 493 ships built from 1940 to 1945. The first C1 types were the smallest of the three original Maritime Commission designs, meant for shorter routes where high speed and capacity were less important. Only a handful were delivered prior to Pearl Harbor. But many C1-A and C1-B ships were already in the works and were delivered during 1942. Many were converted to military purposes including troop transports during the war. The Type C1-M ship was a separate design, for a significantly smaller and shallower draft vessel. This design evolved as an answer for the projected needs for military transport and supply of the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II. Type C1 ships under the control of the British Ministry of War Transport took an Empire name even if built with another name e.g. ''Cape Turner''. Origins The United States Maritime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USAS American Mariner
USAS ''American Mariner'' was a United States Army research vessel from January 1959 to 30 September 1963. She was originally assigned to the DAMP Project by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to attempt to collect radar signature data on incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Caribbean, the South Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. Her initial operations involved providing radar track on the Atlas missile, which was under development at the time. Subsequently, she provided track on other types of missiles as they proceeded through their development and operational stages. In September 1963 the original contract was transferred to the USAF until the completion of the testing phase in 1964. Laid down in 1941 as the Liberty ship SS ''George Calvert'' (MC #20), she first saw service as the United States Coast Guard training ship TS ''American Mariner'', as which she served until 1953, when she was placed in reserve. After her Army career, she was transferred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty Ship
Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Though British in concept, the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction. Mass-produced on an unprecedented scale, the Liberty ship came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. The class was developed to meet British orders for transports to replace ships that had been lost. Eighteen American shipyards built 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945 (an average of three ships every two days), easily the largest number of ships ever produced to a single design. Their production mirrored (albeit on a much larger scale) the manufacture of "Hog Islander" and similar standardized ship types during World War I. The immensity of the effort, the number of ships built, the role of female workers in their construction, and the survival of some far longer than their original five-year design life combine to make them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS General Harry Taylor (AP-145)
USNS ''General Hoyt S. Vandenberg'' (T-AGM-10) (originally named USS ''General Harry Taylor'' (AP-145)) was a in the United States Navy in World War II named in honor of U.S. Army Chief of Engineers Harry Taylor. She served for a time as army transport USAT ''General Harry Taylor'', and was reacquired by the navy in 1950 as USNS ''General Harry Taylor'' (T-AP-145). Placed in reserve in 1958, she was transferred to the U.S. Air Force in 1961 and renamed USAFS ''General Hoyt S. Vandenberg'' in 1963 in honor of the former Air Force Chief of Staff. She was reacquired by the U.S. Navy in 1964 as USNS ''General Hoyt S. Vandenberg'' (T-AGM-10). Retired in 1983, and struck from the Naval Vessel Register in 1993, she was to be sunk as an artificial reef originally intended for the spring of 2008, but instead was placed under Federal Lien to be auctioned off for payment recovery in December 2008 at Norfolk Federal Court. A group of banks and financiers from Key West bought the vessel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type C4-class Ship
The Type C4-class ship were the largest cargo ships built by the United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) during World War II. The design was originally developed for the American-Hawaiian Lines in 1941, but in late 1941 the plans were taken over by the MARCOM. Eighty-one ships were built as cargo or troopships in four shipyards: Kaiser Richmond, California (35 ships), Kaiser Vancouver, Washington (20 ships), Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock in Chester, Pennsylvania (20 ships) and Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point, Maryland (6 ships). All ships were capable of , driven by a single screw steam turbine generating . Among the variations of the design were the . They were followed post-war by thirty-seven of the larger C4-S-1 class, also known as the ''Mariner'' class. List of Type C4 ships USS ''General G.O. Squier'', a C4-S-A1 General series C4-S-A1 DWT: 14,863. Built by Kaiser Shipyards at Permanente No. 3 in Richmond, California, for the US Army Transportation Corps then tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USNS Twin Falls (T-AGM-11)
SS ''Twin Falls Victory'', named after Twin Falls, Idaho, was a Victory ship built for World War II. Converted to a Missile Range Instrumentation Ship, she was initially operated by the US Air Force as USAF ''Twin Falls Victory'', before coming under US Navy control and being named USNS ''Twin Falls'' (T-AGM-11/T-AGS-37). She later had a third career as the training ship SS ''John W. Brown II''. History ''Twin Falls Victory'' was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 167) on 27 December 1944 at Portland, Oregon, by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation; launched on 6 February 1945; sponsored by Mrs. J. B. Pfietor. The ship was delivered on completion 4 April 1945 to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) for operation by McCormick Steamship Company under a general agency agreement. On 24 June 1946 the Isthmian Steamship began operating the ship under a bareboat charter that continued under the Maritime Commission (MC), successor to WSA, until brief operation b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victory Ship
The Victory ship was a class of cargo ship produced in large numbers by North American shipyards during World War II to replace losses caused by German submarines. They were a more modern design compared to the earlier Liberty ship, were slightly larger and had more powerful steam turbine engines giving higher speed to allow participation in high speed convoys and make them more difficult targets for German U-boats. A total of 531 Victory ships were built in between 1944 and 1946. VC2 design One of the first acts of the United States War Shipping Administration upon its formation in February 1942 was to commission the design of what came to be known as the Victory class. Initially designated EC2-S-AP1, where EC2 = Emergency Cargo, type 2 (Load Waterline Length between ), S = steam propulsion with AP1 = one aft propeller (EC2-S-C1 had been the designation of the Liberty ship design), it was changed to VC2-S-AP1 before the name "Victory Ship" was officially adopted on 28 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USNS Sampan Hitch (T-AGM-18)
USNS ''Sampan Hitch'' (T-AGM-18) was a missile range instrumentation ship which earlier operated as the U.S. Air Force ''Ocean Range Vessel'' USAFS ''Sampan Hitch'' (ORV-1836) on the U.S. Air Force's Eastern Test Range during the late 1950s and early 1960s. ''Sampan Hitch'' operated under an Air Force contract with Pan American Airways Guided Missile Range Division headquartered in Cocoa Beach, Florida. ''Sampan Hitch'', assigned to the South Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean area, provided the Air Force with metric data on intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. ''Sampan Hitch'' operated in the intercontinental ballistic missile re-entry area near Ascension Island, and was home-ported out of South Atlantic Fleet Hqtrs, Chagaramus (Port of Spain) Trinidad, BWI. Acquisition by the Navy ''Sampan Hitch'' was acquired from the U.S. Air Force by the U.S. Navy in 1964. Operational data Operational data while on U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USNS Timber Hitch (T-AGM-17)
USNS ''Timber Hitch'' (T-AGM-17) was a US Navy missile range instrumentation ship which earlier operated as the US Air Force ''Ocean Range Vessel'' USAFS ''Timber Hitch'' (ORV-17) on the US Air Force's Eastern Test Range during the late 1950s and early 1960s. ''Timber Hitch'' operated under an Air Force contract with Pan American Airways Guided Missile Range Division headquartered in Cocoa Beach, Florida. ''Timber Hitch'', assigned to the South Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean area, provided the Air Force with metric data on intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida. ''Timber Hitch'' operated in the intercontinental ballistic missile re-entry area near Ascension Island, and was home-ported out of Recife, Brazil. Construction SS ''Timber Hitch'' was laid down 26 August 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2315, by the Consolidated Steel Corporation, Ltd., Wilmington, California; she was spo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USAFS Coastal Crusader (ORV-16)
USNS ''Coastal Crusader'' (AK-220/ORV-16/T-AGM-16/AGS-36) was an that was constructed for the US Navy during the closing period of World War II. She was later acquired by the US Army in 1946 and the US Air Force in 1957 before being reacquired by the USN in 1964 and as a missile range instrumentation ship. Construction ''Coastal Crusader'', a Type C1 ship#C1-M, C1-M-AV1 cargo vessel, was laid down under a US Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2174, on 12 April 1945 at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, by the Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company; launched on 24 June 1945; sponsored by Mrs. DeForrest Colburn; and completed on 26 July 1945. On 25 February 1945, the Navy had assigned the name ''Wexford'' and the designation AK-220 to the projected ship; but the contract for her acquisition by the Navy was cancelled in August 1945 because of the cessation of hostilities in the Pacific Ocean and the surrender of Japan. ''Coastal Crusader'' thus entered mercantile service, never ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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