USNS BOWDITCH: SHIP'S MOVEMENT
Last Updated October 28, 2020
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DATES		LOCATION	PURPOSE	COMMENTS	SOURCE
July 27, 1945		SS South Bend Victory, hull number MCV 694, is delivered to the Maritime Commission
October 8, 1958		Conversion to an AGS completed and placed in service by MSTS as USNS Bowditch T-AGS-21
December 1961	x	Caven Point, NJ, US Army ammunition pier just south of the Statue of Liberty	Return from deployment		R.L. Seiden
	x	Maryland Drydock and Shipbuilding	Yard period		R.L. Seiden
March 1962	x	Bergen, Norway	Inport		R.L. Seiden
	x	Bergen, Norway	Inport		R.L. Seiden
	x	Bergen, Norway	Inport		R.L. Seiden
	x	Bergen, Norway	Inport		R.L. Seiden
	x	Bergen, Norway	Inport		R.L. Seiden
	x	Bergen, Norway	Inport		R.L. Seiden
	x	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Inport		R.L. Seiden
	x	Bergen, Norway	Inport		R.L. Seiden
	x	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Inport	With Michelson and Dutton	R.L. Seiden
December 1962	x	Naples, Italy	Inport, Christmas	Mediterranean	R.L. Seiden
	x	Naples, Italy or Piraeus, Greece	Inport	Mediterranean	R.L. Seiden
	x	Naples, Italy or Piraeus, Greece	Inport	Mediterranean	R.L. Seiden
	x	Naples, Italy or Piraeus, Greece	Inport	Mediterranean	R.L. Seiden
	x	Naples, Italy or Piraeus, Greece	Inport	Mediterranean	R.L. Seiden
	x	Naples, Italy or Piraeus, Greece	Inport	Mediterranean	R.L. Seiden
	x	Naples, Italy or Piraeus, Greece	Inport	Mediterranean	R.L. Seiden
July 1966	x	Lisbon, Portugal	Inport		Chet Headley
August 1966	x	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Inport		Al Hodgdon
September 1966	x	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Inport		Al Hodgdon
October 1966	x	Barcelona, Spain	Inport		Al Hodgdon
November 26-28, 1966		Brooklyn Army Terminal, 58th and 1st Av, NY			Earl Adams
November 28, 1966-January 6, 1967		Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Hoboken, NJ	Yard period		Earl Adams
January 6-9, 1967		Pier North #3, NSD Bayonne, NJ			Earl Adams
Jauary 9-12, 1967		Underway	Sea Trials		Earl Adams
January 12-17 1967		Pier North #3, NSD Bayonne, NJ			Earl Adams
February 3-8, 1967		Barcelona, Spain	Inport		Earl Adams
March 6-7, 1967		At anchor outside Barcelona breakwater			Earl Adams
March 7-11, 1967		Barcelona, Spain	Inport		Earl Adams
April 7-13, 1967		Lisbon, Portugal	Inport		Earl Adams
May 15-21, 1967		USNAVSTA, Rota, Spain	Inport		Earl Adams
May 23, 1967		At anchor off Cascias, Portugal			Earl Adams
June 13, 1967		At anchor off Plymouth, England			Earl Adams
June 22-29, 1967		Belfast, Northern Ireland	Inport		Earl Adams
July 31-August 7, 1967		Lisbon, Portugal	Inport		Earl Adams
September 7-14, 1967		Swansea, South Wales	Inport		Earl Adams
October 12, 1967		USNAVSTA, Rota, Spain	Drop off equipment for calibration (11 hour stop)		John Prough
October 16-November 20, 1967		Valetta, Malta, G.C.	Yard period		Earl Adams
November 20-22, 1967		Underway	Sea Trials		Earl Adams
November 22-27, 1967		Valetta, Malta, G.C.	Yard period		Earl Adams
December 1-4, 1967		Naples, Italy	Inport		Earl Adams
	x	La Spezia, Italy	A brief 18 hour stop to drop off a Navy ET1 for hospital admission. Date unknown.		Earl Adams & Cliff Krouse
December 30, 1967-January 7, 1968		Barcelona, Spain	Inport		Earl Adams
January 23, 1968		At anchor off Barcelona, Spain			Earl Adams
February 7-14, 1968		Barcelona, Spain	Inport		Earl Adams
March 8, 1968		At anchor Malaga, Spain	U.S. Navy Lt. from the Underwater Sound Lab., New London, CT, and a Spanish officer aboard.		Earl Adams
March 8-11, 1968		Surveying in Straits of Gibraltar	This is called playing in traffic!		Earl Adams
March 11, 1968		Majorca (aka Mallorca), Spain	Spanish Naval Officer is put ashore.		Earl Adams
March 11-18, 1968		Lisbon, Portugal	Inport		Earl Adams
March 22-23, 1968		La Caruna, Spain	Dropped off a sick Navy sailor, picked up new Corpsman.		John Prough
April 18-25, 1968		Lisbon, Portugal	Inport		Earl Adams
May 27-June 3, 1968		Bremerhaven, West Germany	Inport		Earl Adams
June 4-5, 1968		Southampton, England	Picked up Navy "Communicators" for Scorpion subsearch.		John Prough
July 5-12, 1968		Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Inport		Earl Adams
August 12-19, 1968		Plymouth, England	Inport		Earl Adams
August 20-24, 1968		Plymouth, England	Inport		Earl Adams
September 11-18, 1968		Belfast, Northern Ireland	Inport		Earl Adams
September 19-23, 1968		Belfast, Northern Ireland	Inport		Earl Adams
October 1968	x	Lisbon, Portugal	Inport		Earl Adams
November 22, 1968		Hoboken, NJ	Yard period		Earl Adams
January 21, 1969	x	Bayonne			Chris Smoot
	x	Lisbon	Inport		Chris Smoot
	x	Lisbon	Inport		Chris Smoot
	x	Belfast	Inport		Chris Smoot
May 25, 1969	x	Rota	Inport		Chris Smoot
June 15, 1969	x	Livorno	Inport		Chris Smoot
	x	Livorno	Inport		Chris Smoot
	x	Rota	Inport		Chris Smoot
August 25, 1969	x	Glasgow	Inport		Chris Smoot
December 7, 1971- February 1, 1972		Falmouth	Yard period		Bob Lord's Journal
February 22-March 1, 1972		Rota	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
March 23-28, 1972		Rota	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
April 20-25, 1972		Malaga	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
May 18-23, 1972		Southampton	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
June 20-27, 1972		Southampton	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
July 25-August 2, 1972		Southampton	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
August 29-September 6, 1972		Southampton	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
October 4-10, 1972		Southampton	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
November 2-6, 1972		Southampton	Yard period		Bob Lord's Journal
December 13, 1972-February 10, 1973		Norfolk	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
March 7-14, 1973		Barcelona	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
April 4-11, 1973		Naples	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
May 9-16, 1973		Southampton	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
June 13-20, 1973		Southampton	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
July 18-25, 1973		Southampton	Inport		Bob Lord's Journal
August 4, 1973		Terceira, The Azores	Anchored out 4 hrs. to drop off 2 crewman		Cruz Book August 1973
August 1, 1973	x	Southampton	Inport		Cruz Book August 1973
September 1973	x	Southampton	Inport		Cruz Book September 1973
April 1974	x	Southampton	Inport		Cruise Book April 1974
May 1974	x	Southampton	Inport		Cruise Book May 1974
July 1974	x	Greenock, Scotland	Inport		Cruise Book July 1974
May 1975	x	St. Johns, Newfoundland	Inport		Cruise Book May 1975
July 1976	x	Southampton	Inport		Bowditch Spitoon July 1976
August 1976	x	St. Johns, Newfoundland	Inport		Bowditch Spitoon August 1976
July 1977	x	Boston, MA	Yard period		Bowditch Spitoon July 1977
August 1977	x	St. Johns, Newfoundland	Inport		Bowditch Spitoon August 1977
October 1977	x	St. Johns, Newfoundland	Inport		Bowditch Spitoon October 1977
November 1977	x	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Inport		Bowditch Spitoon November 1977
December 1977	x	Port Canaveral	Inport		Bowditch Spitoon December 1977
March 1978	x	Norfolk, VA	Inport		Seasons Greetings 1978
April 1978	x	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Inport		Seasons Greetings 1978
May 1978	x	Halifax, Nova Scotia	Inport		Bowditch Spitoon May 1978
June or July 1978	x	Rota	Inport		Bowditch Spitoon July 1978; Seasons Greetings 1978
July 1978	x	Port Canaveral	Inport		Seasons Greetings 1978
August 1978	x	Port Canaveral	Inport		Bowditch Spitoon August 1978
September 1978	x	Bermuda	Inport		Seasons Greetings 1978
October 1978	x	Port Canaveral	Inport		Seasons Greetings 1978
November 1978	x	Bermuda	Inport		Bowditch Spitoon November 1978
December 1978	x	Port Canaveral	Inport		Bowditch Spitoon December 1978
March 1980	x	Bermuda	Inport		Linda Petitpas
April 1980	x	Norfolk, VA	Inport		Linda Petitpas
May 1980	x	Richmond, VA	Inport		Linda Petitpas
May 17, 1982		Norfolk	Yards (45 days)	Imperial Docks, Metro Machine Corp.	NAVOCEANO Bulletin August 1982
December 23, 1982		Port Canaveral	Inport		Bill Truslow
January 5, 1983		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
January 31, 1983		Las Palmas	Inport		Bill Truslow
February 6, 1983		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
March 6, 1983		Las Palmas	Inport		Bill Truslow
March 21, 1983		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
April 14, 1983		Las Palmas	Inport		Bill Truslow
April 19, 1983		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
May 16, 1983		Las Palmas	Inport		Bill Truslow
May 23, 1983		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
June 10, 1983		Las Palmas	Inport		Bill Truslow
June 17, 1983		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
July 14, 1983		Las Palmas	Inport		Bill Truslow
July 21, 1983		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
August 18, 1983		San Juan	Inport		Bill Truslow
November 1984	x	Port Everglades	Inport		Bill Truslow
November 24, 1984		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
December 22, 1984		Barbados	Inport		Bill Truslow
January 3, 1985		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
January 29, 1985		Barbados	Inport		Bill Truslow
February 5, 1985		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
March 4, 1985		Barbados	Inport		Bill Truslow
October 1986	x	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Annual overhaul		NAVOCEANO Bulletin January 1987
October 9, 1986		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
October 26, 1986		Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire	Inport		Bill Truslow
October 27, 1986		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
November 11, 1986		Rio de Janeiro	Inport		Bill Truslow
November 16, 1986		Atlantic Ocean	At sea	Survey	Bill Truslow
November 17, 1986		At sea, vicinity Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		Power failure due to loss of steam, ship dead in the water	NAVOCEANO Bulletin, April/May 2003, Bill Truslow
November 18, 1986		Atlantic Ocean	Under tow		Bill Truslow
November 21, 1986		Rio de Janeiro		Towed to Rio after towtine parted several times	Bill Truslow
November 30, 1986	x	Rio de Janeiro		Departure aborted due to fuel pump failure, returned to anchorage	Bill Truslow
January 16, 1987		Rio de Janeiro	At anchor	Collided with other ships	NAVOCEANO Bulletin March 1987
Late February 1987	x	Gulfport, Mississippi	Damage evaluation		Naval Oceano Command Bulletin March 1987, Bill Truslow
March 4, 1988		USNS Bowditch T-AGS-21 is disposed of by the Maritime Administration.   The date stricken from the Naval Register is unknown.