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NAMESAKE USNS H.H. Hess T-AGS-38 was named in honor of Harry Hammond Hess (1906-1969). He was was an American geologist and a United States Navy officer who is considered one of the founding fathers of the unifying theory of plate tectonics. |
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SS Canada Mail The original incarnation of USNS Hess. (Submitted courtesy of Bennett Scharf. Original source unknown, but obviously copied from a book.) |
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SS Canada Mail Or perhaps its twin SS Oregon Mail from an American Mail Lines sales brochure c. 1971. |
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USNS H. H. Hess T-AGS-38 Color photo, date and location unknown. (Submitted courtesy of Bennett Scharf. Original source unknown.) |
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USNS H. H. Hess T-AGS-38 At Elliott Bay, looking toward Seattle. Date unknown. (Photo from Carl Friberg.) |
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USNS H. H. Hess T-AGS-38 Date and location unknown. (Original source unknown.) |
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USNS H. H. Hess T-AGS-38 Commercial postcard photo. Date and location unknown. |
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USNS H. H. Hess T-AGS-38 US Maritime Administration (MARAD) status card. (Original source unknown.) |
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USNS H. H. Hess T-AGS-38 at Sea (Photo from Phil Brooks. Original source unknown.) |
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USNS H. H. Hess T-AGS-38 Deckhouse (Photo from Phil Brooks. Original source unknown.) |
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USNS H. H. Hess T-AGS-38 in Drydock (Photo from Phil Brooks. Original source unknown.) |
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USNS H. H. Hess T-AGS-38 Transits the Panama Canal Date unknown. (Photo from Carl Friberg.) |
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USNS H. H. Hess T-AGS-38 Panama Canal transit in October 1981, returning to the Pacific. (Photo by unknown, contributed by Bill Truslow.) |
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USNS H. H. Hess T-AGS-38 Docked at Broadway Pier, San Diego
in November 1981 (Photo from Bill Truslow.) |
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Ex-USNS H. H. Hess (T-AGS-38) being dismantled at Brownsville,
TX., August 2011 (Photo from Navsource.) |
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