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U.S.S. GEORGETOWN
(AGTR-2)PROGRESS THROUGH RESEARCH
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USS GEORGETOWN (AGTR-2) - an Oxford-class technical research ship
In Commission 1963 to 1969AGTR-2 Deployments - Major Events
| Add a AGTR-2 Shellback Initiation | Add a AGTR-2 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
| Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAY | 1945 | - | Keel Date: 4 MAY 1945 at New England Shipbuilding Corporation South Portland ME | ||
| JUL | 1945 | - | Launch Date: 10 JUL 1945 | ||
| JAN | 1963 | - | APR | 1963 | Caribbean |
| NOV | 1963 | - | Commissioned: 9 NOV 1963 | ||
| JAN | 1964 | - | MAR | 1964 | Sea Trials |
| JUL | 1964 | - | OCT | 1964 | Deployment South America Columbia, Brazil, Uruguay. Buenos Aires |
| AUG | 1964 | - | Shellback Initiation - 4 AUG 1964 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| AUG | 1964 | - | Shellback Initiation - 8 AUG 1964 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| AUG | 1964 | - | Shellback Initiation - 4 AUG 1964 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| AUG | 1964 | - | Shellback Initiation - 4 AUG 1964 - Pacific Ocean | ||
| JAN | 1965 | - | JUN | 1965 | GITMO; Panama; Valparaiso Chile; Lima Peru; etc |
| JAN | 1965 | - | JUL | 1965 | South America |
| JAN | 1965 | - | Shellback Initiation - 27 JAN 1965 - Pacific Ocean | ||
| AUG | 1965 | - | Shellback Initiation - 11 AUG 1965 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| AUG | 1965 | - | Shellback Initiation - 11 AUG 1965 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| JAN | 1966 | - | Shellback Initiation - 27 JAN 1966 - Pacific Ocean | ||
| OCT | 1966 | - | DEC | 1966 | Caribbean |
| MAR | 1967 | - | JUN | 1967 | Caribbean |
| APR | 1967 | - | Shellback Initiation - 24 APR 1967 - Pacific Ocean | ||
| OCT | 1967 | - | NOV | 1967 | Caribbean, GITMO, Jamaica, Panama, Departed for Mediterranean |
| NOV | 1967 | - | MAR | 1968 | Mediterranean |
| NOV | 1967 | - | MAR | 1968 | Guantanamo Bay |
| MAY | 1968 | - | AUG | 1968 | Caribbean |
| SEP | 1968 | - | MAR | 1969 | South Atlantic/Indian Ocean |
| OCT | 1968 | - | Shellback Initiation - 20 OCT 1968 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| OCT | 1968 | - | Shellback Initiation - 20 OCT 1968 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| OCT | 1968 | - | Shellback Initiation - 10 OCT 1968 - Pacific Ocean | ||
| OCT | 1968 | - | Shellback Initiation - 10 OCT 1968 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| FEB | 1969 | - | Shellback Initiation - 22 FEB 1969 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| DEC | 1969 | - | Decommissioned: 19 DEC 1969 | ||
AGTR-2 General Specifications
Class: Oxford-class technical research ship
Complement: 213 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 8345 tons
Length: 441 feet 6 inches
Beam: 56 feet 11 inches
Draft: 22 feet 9 in
Final Disposition: Scrapped 1971
USS GEORGETOWN (AGTR-2)
Georgetown (AG-165), a converted "Liberty-type" cargo ship, was laid down
as Robert W. Hart under Maritime Commission contract 4 May 1945 by New England Shipbuilding
Corp., South Portland, Maine; launched 10 July 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Fred W. Woolsey; and delivered
under General Agency Agreement from
WSA to Agwilines, New York, N.Y., 2 August 1945.
Robert W. Hart sailed in merchant service until entering the National Defense Reserve Fleet,
Wilmington, N.C., in December 1946. She was
chartered by Waterman Steamship Corp., Mobile, Ala., 31 January 1947 and operated under bareboat charter until 29 October
when she entered the National Defense
Reserve Fleet, Jamestown, Va.
Acquired by the Navy 10 August 1962, she was taken to Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport
News, Va., for conversion to a technical research ship; renamed Georgetown (AG-165)
6 March 1963; and commissioned at Norfolk 9
November 1963, Comdr. W. A. Gleason
in command.
Equipped
with the latest communications and electromagnetic research installations, Georgetown
sailed for shakedown at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 2' January 1964. She was reclassified
AGTR-2 on 1 April 1964 and began her operational service 13 April. Assigned to Service Squadron 8, she operated
in the Caribbean until June, then departed Norfolk 30 June on a 4-month deployment along the eastern coast of
South America. After participating in electronic research programs, she returned to Norfolk 26 October.
Departing Norfolk 5
January 1965, Georgetown steamed via
the Panama Canal to the Southeast Pacific for research operations off the coast
of Chile. Before returning to Norfolk 14 May, she also operated in the
Caribbean. Between 20 July and 13 October she
again operated off the eastern coast of South America; and, after returning to Norfolk, she received new electronics
equipment, including a Communications
Moon Relay System. She departed
Norfolk 14 December and resumed important research and test equipment operations in the Caribbean and equatorial Pacific. The year 1966 was a busy
one for Georgetown. Besides an
outstanding performance gathering
valuable information about the ocean, she made two rescues at sea, transited
the Panama Canal four times, passed
through the eye of a hurricane, and won the Battle Efficiency "E."
At present Georgetown
continues a long-standing Navy tradition
of maintaining the highest standards in scientific research requirements.
[Note: The above USS GEORGETOWN (AGTR-2) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS GEORGETOWN (AGTR-2), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]