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U.S.S. REQUISITE
(AGS-18)Click to view crew list
USS REQUISITE (AGS-18) - an Auk-class minesweeper
In Commission 1943 to 1947AGS-18 Deployments - Major Events
Add a AGS-18 Shellback Initiation | Add a AGS-18 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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NOV | 1941 | - | Keel Date: 12 NOV 1941 at Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company Seattl | ||
JUL | 1942 | - | Launch Date: 25 JUL 1942 | ||
JUN | 1943 | - | Commissioned: 7 JUN 1943 | ||
JUN | 1955 | - | OCT | 1955 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
JUN | 1956 | - | OCT | 1956 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
MAY | 1958 | - | MAY | 1958 | Panama Canal |
APR | 1959 | - | JUN | 1960 | Persian Gulf Survey Cruise Task Unit 48.4.7 |
APR | 1964 | - | Decommissioned: 1 APR 1964 |
AGS-18 General Specifications
Class: Auk-class minesweeper
Complement: 100 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 890 tons
Length: 221 feet 3 inches
Beam: 32 feet
Draft: 10 feet 9 in
Final Disposition: Sold for scrapping March 1965
USS REQUISITE (AGS-18)
Requisite (AM-109)
was laid down 12 November 1941 by the Winslow Marine Railway & Shipbuilding
Co., Inc., Seattle, Wash.; launched 25 July 1942; and commissioned 7 June 1943,
Lt. Robert W. Graham, USNR, in command.
Following shakedown off southern California, Requisite proceeded to San Francisco.
Thence on 1 August, she escorted a convoy to Honolulu. Attached to Service
Squadron 6, she trained in Hawaiian waters into October. On the 25th, she
cleared Pearl Harbor and headed for the New Hebrides to prepare for her first
amphibious operation, the invasion of Tarawa Atoll, in the Gilberts.
Departing Efate on 13 November, she took up her position as
listening vessel at the lagoon entrance off Betio early on the morning of the
20th. While preinvasion bombardment was in progress, she and Pursuit (AM-108) swept a channel from
the transport area into the lagoon. Just prior to the landings, she took up
duties as assistant control and survey ship and began marking the channel and
searching out possible anchorages in the lagoon. On the 21st, she returned to
the transport area and resumed screening duties.
As Tarawa was being secured, Requisite shifted to Abemama and assisted in the offloading of
equipment and supplies for the garrison group. She then remained in the area
until 12 December when she got underway for Pearl Harbor.
On 22 January 1944, she sortied with TF 52 for the invasion
of the Marshalls. In the antisubmarine screen of the Southern Attack Force, en
route, she arrived off Kwajalein Atoll on the 31st. She continued her
antisubmarine activities until 3 February, then began sweeping operations off
Kwajalein and other islands in the southern part of the atoll. On the 6th, she
planted navigational aids, and on the 15th, sortied with TG 51.11 for the
Eniwetok assault.
Two days later, she entered Eniwetok lagoon between Japtan
and Parry Islands. Sweeping and survey duties followed. On the 24th, she
returned to Kwajalein and, through March escorted reconnaissance parties in
LSTs and LCIs to Wotho, Ujae, Lae, Ailinglapalap, Namorik and other minor
atolls and islands of the Marshalls.
On 10 April, she departed those islands and headed east with
an LST convoy. On the 24th, she escorted her charges into Pearl Harbor and 2
days later continued on to San Francisco and overhaul.
On 16 July she returned to Hawaii. An escort run to Eniwetok
and interisland escort duty in Hawaii took her into September. Then, on the
23d, she headed west for her next invasion target, the Philippines.
Moving across the Pacific via Eniwetok, she joined the 7th
Fleet at Manus on 10 October, and 7 days later she commenced sweeping the
approaches to Leyte Gulf. She continued her sweeping operations until the 24th,
when she anchored in San Pedro Bay. Three days later, she began a 5-day search
for survivors of the battles for Leyte Gulf.
During November she swept in waters near Homomhon [sic;
Homonhon], Suluan, Calicoan, and Dinagat. In early December, she and Pursuit swept the Canigao Channel, West
Passage, to provide a second access to the Camotes Sea. On the 6th, 7th, and
8th, Requisite participated in the
Ormoc Bay assault, then returned to the east coast of Leyte.
On 2 January 1945, Requisite
moved north with TG 77.6. The next day she entered the Sulu Sea. She passed
Manila Bay on 5 January, and, on the 6th, she began sweeping operations in
Lingayen Gulf which continued until the 14th. She then replenished at Leyte,
and returned to Luzon on 29 January for preinvasion sweeps off San Felipe in
Zambales Province. On the 31st, she anchored in Subic Bay.
In February, Requisite
with others of Mine Division 3, moved east to Guam, whence she continued to
Ulithi. In mid-March she sortied with Mine Group 1 of the Okinawa invasion
force.
Arriving in the Ryukyus on the 24th, Requisite swept the approaches to Kerama Retto the same day. On the
25th, she extended operations to Keise Shima. The 26th saw her off southern
Okinawa. From the 27th through the 29th, she operated off the Hagushi beaches
and on the 30th and 31st she swept off the Motobu Peninsula and Ie Shima. She
then retired to Kerama Retto.
Requisite remained
in the Okinawa area, employed in screening and sweeping operations until 16
April. A month's respite in the Marianas followed; but by the end of May she
was back in the Ryukyus. Through June, she continued patrol and sweeping duties
off Okinawa. In July she began sweeping in the East China Sea in anticipation
of an invasion of the Japanese home islands. Then, in August, she departed for
an availability at Leyte. There when hostilities ceased, she returned to
Okinawa at the end of the month and in September resumed sweeping operations,
this time to clear Japanese waters for the arrival of occupation forces and the
resumption of peacetime maritime traffic. Off Shikoku during early September,
she shifted to Honshu at midmonth and during October operated in the Ise Wan
area. On in November, she added the responsibility of communications and
operational headquarter, CTG 52.8, to her duties and on 17 December she headed
back to the United States.
The ship arrived at San Diego 17 January 1946. The following
month, she continued on to the east coast arriving at Norfolk on 21 February.
For the next year and a half she operated with the Atlantic Fleet towing
targets for training groups. Then ordered inactivated, she proceeded to Orange,
Tex., where she decommissioned and joined the Reserve Fleet 23 December 1947.
Recommissioned 15 February 1950, Requisite was assigned to hydrographic survey duties. She reported
to the Atlantic Fleet for duty on 1 March and for the next 3 years she spent
the winter survey season operating in the Caribbean and the warmer months off
Labrador and Greenland. Reclassified AGS-18 on 18 August 1951, she discontinued
her North Atlantic-Caribbean schedule in the fall of 1954. On 6 October she got
underway from Norfolk; and, from 1 November 1954 to 2 February 1955, she
conducted surveys from Iskenderun [sic; Iskenderum], Turkey.
The following year, Requisite
shifted to the northern Pacific. She arrived at her new homeport, Seattle, in
late June and before the end of the month had commenced Arctic operations. By
mid-September she had surveyed routes from Herschel Island to Sheperd Bay,
taking continuous soundings and compiling bathythermograph information and
gathering core samplings every 20 miles. She continued her operations from
Seattle until July 1958. Then homeported at San Francisco, she remained in the
Pacific, ranging from the Arctic to Polynesia, to Central America until the
spring of 1959.
On 1 May 1959, she got underway for Philadelphia. Arriving
on the 23d, she resumed operations with ServRon 8, Atlantic Fleet and during
the summer operated in the Caribbean. In November, she sailed east for her
first survey season in the Persian Gulf. During the 1960-61 season she returned
to the Persian Gulf, but remained in the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and off New
England during the 1961-62 season. On 1 July 1962, she sailed for Iceland and a
return to survey operations of Greenland, completing that mission in November.
In January 1963, she sailed to the West Indies, operated there through the
summer, and returned to Philadelphia in early November. Ordered inactivated she
reported to the Philadelphia Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, on 23 December. She
was decommissioned and struck from the Navy list 1 April 1964.
Requisite earned
eight battle stars during World War II.
25 September 2005
[Note: The above USS REQUISITE (AGS-18) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS REQUISITE (AGS-18), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]