Maury (AGS 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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55.- U.s.s. MA URY IAGS-16 VIETNAM 1967 N I ,.. H ii? -e- f 1 1 'W l --...Lal n wi ...Jav- -af The MAURY'S mission is to obtain hydro- graphic and other oceanographic data to permit updating of navigational charts and insure safe navigation to the world's mariners. A port of her mission is to provide field charts to place new information in the hands of ship navigators at the earliest possible time. The USS MAURY was originally com- missioned the USS RENATE QAKD-363 in August 1945. The RENATE was built in Providence, Rhode Island, by the Walsh-Kaiser Shipbuilding Company and was attached to the Amphibious Force of the U. S. Atlantic Fleet. The RENATE was converted to a hydrographic survey ship at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, by the addition of four large soundboats, a modern drafting 1'00II1. print shop, and photographic laboratory and helicopter flight deck. On 1 August 1946 she was commissioned as USS MAURY QAGS-165. Upon recommissioning, the MAURY joined the Pacific Fleet to survey Truk Atoll. In 1948, following a year of inactivation, the MAURY began the first of several deployments 501-,JP - . 1. ...Qs .-. 4, - ih- A-1-......, Q, . to the Persian Gulf. This operation continued until 1952 when a new series of special survey projects were begun. In September 1959, MAURY became the first U. S. Navy ship to entera Russian port since World War II when she paid a good will visit to the Black Sea port of Odessa. In February 1960 the ship's homeport was moved from New York to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Since changing homeports MAURY has spent many a month in various areas of South East Asia, South America, Hawaiian Islands and the South Pacific performing survey operations as specified by Navoceano, SecNav and treaty obligations. Presently the MAURY has com- pleted an exhaustive hydrographic survey in the Vietnam area. The Oceans cover some seven tenths ofthe ea1fth's surface and if excuse be need- ed, surely this alone is adequately to justi- fy theiifstndy H. Barnes Oceanographic Ki Marine Biology. 1959 s..Sc.

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C0 MANDI G OFFICER ,WS-M .X f ff. ff . gf' . 1.1, ,Z WI ....., CAPTAIN G. A. AUBERT Captain Aubert enlisted in the U. S. Navy at Seattle. Wash- ington in February 1937. He received his recruit training at the U. S. Naval Training Center. San Diego, California, and attended Aviation Radioman School before reporting to Patrol Squadron Seventeen for duty. From 1938 through 1943 the captain's duties included air- crewman duties in Patrol Planes on the west coast and Alaska with VP-17, the combat aircrexmian duties with VP-84 on the eastern seaboard, Newfoundland. Greenland. and Iceland until shortly after his promotion to .Aviation Chief Radioman in 1942 when he was transferred to Operational Training Unit 33 at U. S. Naval Air Station. Banana River. Florida. ln 1943 Captain Aubert was appointed to the rank of Warrant Radio Electrician and continued to train aircrews as O-in-C Radio! Radar Flight Training until his assignment as Radio Officer and Electronics Materiel Officer of USS WEBSTER CART-23 in the Pacific Theater of operations. Promoted to Ensign, and selected for permanent commission in 19-45, his subsequent work included staff duties with COMTRANSDIY-13 and COM- PHIBGRU- ONE, Radio ofUSS ORISKANY qc VA-3-lj, and Operations Officer of USS RICHARD B. ANDERSON CDD-7865. Following his destroyer duty, Captain Aubert served as ASW Lnstructor and 2 Training Device Maintenance Officer at Fleet Sonar Sch00lf San Diego, California until assigned his first command, we ocean minesvfeeper USS DYNAMIC CMSO-4321. Subsequent duties included command of several Navyfhlarine Reserve Training Centers in the Eighth Naval District, command of Mine Division 93 and as a faculty member of the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia, until his assummfw of COmmaDd of USS MAURY CAGS-151 OD 1 July 1966. Captain Aubert has attended the University of New Meldwf University of Southwest Louisiana, and Old Dominion College- Additionally, his professional education includes various tech' nical service schools, U. S. Naval Postgraduate School - General Line, Mine Warfare School, and the Armed Forces Staff College- Captain Aubert holds service and campaign medal-3 from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, plus the AirMeda1, and the Presidential Unit Cit2.fl0rl, Captain Aubert is married to the former Mar? Frances Foster of Seattle, Washington and they have four children: MIS. Ray Alston Hewitt of Odessa, Texas, George, Jr. who 2-'neg Chaininade College in Honolulu, Mary Louise, Mafef Jane, the latter three children residing with Calflam andurs' Aubert in their quarters at Makalapa.