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QBM csc.. TWV if 3 SHIP'S HISTORY AND MISSION The USS TANNER KAGS-155 is an old and a proud ship. She began her life as the USS PAMINA fAKA-34l when she was launched at the Kaiser-Walsh Shipyard in Providence, Rhode Island on 5 January 1945. She then served with the Pacific Fleet from April 1945 until January 1946. Since World War II was then over and the need for cargo ships was not as great, the PAMINA was sent to Norfolk, Virginia for conversion at the Naval Shipyard to a Hydrographic ship. ln Septem- ber 1946, the PAMINA was recommissioned and named in honor of the late Lera Luther Tanner, Cap- tain, U.S. Navy C1835-1906l, an authority on oceanography and the inventor of an early type of sounding equipment. - Since her conversion the TANNER has seen the four corners of the globe on her many survey missions. Four cruises each were made to the Bahama Islands, to Labrador and New Foundland, and to the Eastern Mediterranean. In 1959-1961, TANNER' conducted two hydrographic surveys in the Persian 'Gulf area. And in the summers of 1962 and 1963 she conducted extensive surveys in the Barents Sea. Sandwiched in between these was a hydrogra hic survey in the Florida Straits. The primary mission of the TANNER is to gather hydiographic and oceanographic data. Hydro- graphic data is used, in the construction of up to date charts which enable mariners to navigate in safety as they sail the sea lanes of the world. Oceanographic data is valuable in the exploration of the frontier beneath the sea and its possible future use to a now comparatively land-bound people. The operation of a survey ship is both complex and demanding. The TANNER often uses heli- copter and marine detachments to carry out her various missions. ln addition there are four fifty- two soundboats, four landing craft, two motorboats, and many thousands of dollars worth'-of electron- ic equipment. All of these are used, at times, to gather information that is eventuallygsent on to Washington for evaluation and publication. -.- 9 TANNER is also a logistic ship. Since she operates independently most ofthe time,,she must be relatively self-sufficient, capable of carrying out long and involved missions in the far-flung and, often, desolate areas of the world. - N A ei
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