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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).[1]
Kane 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.[2] 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 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.[3]
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.[2]
^The Federal Ocean Program. April 1972. pp. 67–68.
^ ab"Kane II". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command.
^Felt, Hali (2012). Soundings - The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor. Picador. pp. 192–193. ISBN 978-1-250-03145-7.
System (ODAS) as were oceanographic survey ships USNS Silas Bent (T-AGS-26) and USNS Wilkes (T-AGS-33). Kane was launched 20 November 1965 by the Christy...
She was later able to join a 1968 data-collection expedition on the USNSKane. She independently used data collected from the Woods Hole Oceanographic...
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him, as was a later oceanographic research ship, the USNSKane (T-AGS-27). A lunar crater, Kane, was also named for him. In 1986, the U.S. Postal Service...
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Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The operation was organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr., USN, Officer...
and ground on Bathurst Island, north of Darwin. Kane died in an Australian hospital at Darwin. Kane Ammunition Depot was run by the 25th Ordnance Medium...
Ground) 1973 Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid as Norris 1974 Columbo as Eddie Kane (Episode: Publish or Perish) 1974 The Take as Man With Braces 1974 The Ultimate...
transferred to Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS), and was redesignated USNS Pulaski County (T-LST-1088). She served with MSTS into 1970. Struck from...
Chesty Anderson, USN (1976); Heaven Can Wait (1978); The North Avenue Irregulars (1979); High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980); Death Wish...
structure of AirSols, Marine Corps historians Henry I. Shaw and Douglas T. Kane, wrote: Rear Admiral Charles P. Mason was the first officer to hold the title...
273–277. Shaw & Kane 1963, p. 324. Shaw & Kane 1963, p. 298. Miller 1959, p. 289. Hough & Crown 1952, p. 63. Shaw & Kane 1963, p. 307. Shaw & Kane 1963, pp. 300–307...
adaptation of the 1906 novel, with George Nash playing Jurgis Rudkus and Gail Kane playing Ona Lukozsaite. The film is considered lost. Sinclair appears at...
Michigan. Vandenberg was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Pearl Kane and William Collins Vandenbergh, both from Dutch ancestry. He grew up in...
Hooper, USN (ret.), August 1970 – July 1976 Rear Admiral John D. H. Kane, USN (ret.), August 1976 – December 1985 Dr. Ronald H. Spector, 21 July 1986...
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