Temporary E-mail this is work. Comms will be up at home in a month or two. Please say hello and I will get some photo's out stat when I get access. Nice to have this site. Harvey, Neil, Tom, etc., keep in touch...

I just found this web site. I have pictures to add to the site

Wow! Thanks Earl for all the hard work on this website. And thanks to Phil for the great work on the guestbook! Never thought I would find anything on the web about the T-AGS. Enjoyed a year of fun on the Bowditch; best duty ever; model rockets, shooting m14's at trash, WRAT radio, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Lisbon. North Atlantic in a hurricane to standby a sinking sailboat till the coasties arrived onscene! Only see one shipmate listed; Rusty McIntyre; hope more find this site. Wished I could have stayed onboard longer but they sent me off to a sub for the next two years... Will try to send a few photos!"FORS PER SCIENTIAM"

Brings back some memories. What about Hess?

"Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile ... can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction, 'I served in the United States Navy'."

President John F. Kennedy

For years I've looked for information on what my dad was doing at sea all those years...Who knew it would be as simple as typing "USNS Dutton" into a search bar?
Thanks to this site, I knew more about him and the job he was doing in twenty minutes than he told me over the course of his entire lifetime.
If anyone can tell me more, Id be glad to hear from you.
Thanks again, and a big "well done!"

Great work Earl!

Found website with the help of Chet Headley.
Brings back a lot of old memories.

Whatever happened to Calypso Charlie and Herbie?

Great site, Earl. Brought back a lot of memories. I was an ETN2 SINS tech, and reported aboard the Bowditch the day the ship pulled into Bethlehem Steel Shipyards in Hoboken,NJ Nov 68. I'll look around to see if I can find any old photos to add.
Cheers.

OcDet1 EMO as Ensign. A year in the North Sea. Blue Nose Feb 26 196, Stupid, into the Ice in Feb.

Later USS Compass Island EAG153 1965 to 1967