USS TANNER US NAVY SOUNDBOAT DIVISION – AGS 15 Vietnam War

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USS TANNER US NAVY SOUNDBOAT DIVISION – AGS 15 Vietnam War.

The USS TANNER (AGS-15), an Artemis-class attack cargo ship, was commissioned on 10 FEB 1945 as the USS PAMINA (AKA-34). USS PAMINA served in the later stages for the war against the Japanese then returned to the US in 1946. On 15 MAY 1946 USS PAMINA was renamed USS TANNER, after Zero Luther Tanner (1835-1936) a US Naval officer and a pioneer in hydrography, and reclassified AGS-15. Over the next twenty three years TANNER surveyed the Caribbean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Barents Sea, Aegean Sea, South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. USS TANNER served her country for 24 years, 5 months and 4 days, until decommissioned on 14 JUL 1969. The hulk of the TANNER was scrapped in 1970.