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This non-commercial, non-political, informational site continues to be an important historical document and memorial of these ships, crews and for Earl Adams, who originated the site in 2007 and passed away in 2014.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.
Photos, videos, commentaries and sea stories are accepted. These can be
uploaded here. Also, additions and corrections are being made to the
crew roster, which now lists over 1600 shipmates.
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 site administrator John Hansen. Mahalo!
Site last updated on November 30, 2022