Tanner (AGS 15) - Naval Cruise Book

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DEDICATIO To The wives, sweefhearfs, and families who stayed behind and to all The ships that will follow the TANNER safely.

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USS NNER The USS TANNER was confmissioned a hydrographic survey ship in September 1946. At that time she began her ex- tensive task of charting the world's oceans. From her commissioning until :July 1966, TANNER operated in the At.. lantic and Mediterranean, surveying such areas as the coasts of South Amer.. ica, Greenland, Labrador, Greece, Tur- key, Bahama Islands, and the Persian Gulf. In July 1966 TANNER transited the Pananm Canal to her new homeport of Pearl Harbor,l-lawaii. Since her ar.. rival in the Pacific, she has had two deployments to the Western Pacific, both to survey Vietnamese waters. TANNER executes her primary mis.. sion of gathering hydrographic and geo- detic data for navigational charts by use of on board complex electronic equipment, and four sounding boats, equipped similarly, but on a smaller scale, for s,hallow'areas'. QTANNER es- tablishes and supplies beach camps which emit radio signals to provide the precise navigation required- in such survey operations. During this cruise,the Task Unit, consisting of USS TANNER, USS TOWHEE, and USS Sl-lELORAKE,surveyed over 45,000 mi les to establish a new survey record for any task unit.