The Silas Bent class is frequently found applied to four ships though the Naval Vessel Register and some sources officially break them into the subclasses of AGS-26 and AGS-33 . Silas Bent was the first of the first four purpose built ships for U.S. Navy surveys. Previous ships had been modifications of various naval types.
6-580: USNS Kane (T-AGS-27) was a Silas Bent -class survey ship acquired by the United States Navy and delivered to Military Sealift Command in 1967. Kane spent her career performing oceanographic surveys . The ship was equipped with the Oceanographic Data Acquisition System (ODAS) as were oceanographic survey ships USNS Silas Bent (T-AGS-26) and USNS Wilkes (T-AGS-33) . Kane
12-618: The Navy 23 July 1965 (See photos at references). The two AGS-33 ships are USNS Wilkes (T-AGS-33) and USNS Wyman (T-AGS-34) USNS Wilkes (AGS-33) and USNS Wyman (AGS-34) were laid down on the same day, 18 July 1968, at the same shipyard, Defoe Shipbuilding Company , Bay City, Michigan . The ships were designed to be capable of surveys supporting hydrographic and bathymetric charting and oceanographic requirements. They differed chiefly in installed equipment and systems, particularly data acquisition systems. The initial Bent installation
18-509: Was a prototype "Shipboard Survey System" based on a standard Navy AN/UYK computer. Later Bent was equipped with the Oceanographic Data Acquisition System (ODAS), operational 1971, as were the later oceanographic survey ships Kane and Wilkes . The Wyman replaced USNS Sgt. George D Keathley (T-AGS-35) for geophysical, particularly gravity, and bathymetric surveys. Wyman was equipped first with
24-595: Was also on board and worked on revising the North Atlantic physiographic diagram while also producing a new physiographic map of the Pacific Ocean floor. Besides conducting coastal hydrographic and oceanographic surveys, Kane also tended small survey craft, helicopters, and Marine Corps survey teams. She was capable of compiling and printing finished charts on the spot to meet fleet and landing force requirements and had accommodations for scientists. Kane
30-655: Was deactivated in Malaysia 14 March 2001, and transferred to the Republic of Turkey, renamed TGC Çandarli (A-588), joining her sister ship, ex- Silas Bent which was renamed TCG Çeșme (A-599). Silas Bent-class survey ship Two ships were built to essentially the same design at two different yards. The AGS-26 and AGS-33 ( Wilkes ) subclass ships were externally almost identical with slightly different modernized internal configuration reflecting their being laid down (July 1968) three years after Bent's delivery to
36-672: Was launched 20 November 1965 by the Christy Corporation , Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin ; sponsored by Mrs. Harold T. Duetermann, wife of Vice Admiral Deutermann; assigned to Military Sea Transportation Service ; and placed in service 26 May 1967 for scientific operations in the Atlantic. Bruce Heezen was the chief scientist on Kane ' s maiden research voyage, a four-month survey of fracture zones to determine what route and through what periods of geologic time North America separated from Europe and Africa. Cartographer Marie Tharp
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