About this web site ...
The TAGS Ship
website contains the collected contributions of dozens of
persons associated with the Ocean Survey Program, carried out
by the US Navy's Oceanographic Office.
Reminiscences, technical descriptions, photos and sea stories
are from US Navy sailors, merchant mariners, oceanographers
and tech reps associated with survey ships USNS Bowditch, USNS
Dutton and USNS Michelson as well as USNS H. H. Hess,
Michelson's successor.
Originally at tags-21.info, the TAGS website content
is now located here at tags-ship.com. This "legacy
site" was designed to be seen in a PC or laptop web browser.
It is not "dumbed down" for viewing on phones.
This non-commercial, non-political, informational site
continues to be an important historical document and memorial
of these ships, crews and for Earl Adams, who originated the
site in 2007 and passed away in 2014.
The Guest Log was added to the site
in 2008 by Phil Brooks. More than 250 TAGS veterans and other
website guests have left comments on this message board.
If you'd like to submit photos, videos or sea stories
information about submitting material can be found here along with a list of contributing shipmates.
Please send comments and suggestions or reports of errors,
omissions, broken links and things adrift to the
Site Admin
. Thank you!