Take a Trip on a Survey Ship: USNS Michelson: Mystery Seamount

Mystery Seamount

From All Hands magazine, November 1966.

Brooklyn Navy Yard (1)
Everyone who worked there knew it was going to close. The New York Naval…

Brewed in Brooklyn
Brooklyn was the home of New York's two largest breweries. The F. & M.…

Michelson News July 1963
Atlantic Voyageur was intended for dependents and families back home. Written…

Radio Officers
The Radio Officer, once known as a…

Michelson Drops the Hook
Survey Ship USNS Michelson at…

Ship, Captain, Crew
Comprehensive crew roster TAGS ships navy and civilian crew Michelson Dutton…

Michelson News June 1963
Atlantic Voyageur was intended for dependents and families back home. Written…

Michelson in Barcelona: Summer 1963
Michelson slowed as it approached the Barcelona harbor pilot station. On our…

Michelson News April 1963
Atlantic Voyageur was intended for dependents and families back home. Written…

Bayonne to San Juan
Michelson got under way around the beginning of May 1964, leaving Bayonne for San…

John A. Hansen Update
It is with a heavy heart that the Hansen family informs you that John passed away…

Michelson in The Minch
We lost a lot of survey time during the winter of 1962-63 because of bad…

Navy Cartoons (4)
Here are yet more US Navy cartoons from All Hands magazine, the official publication…

Radio Officer a Hero
Michelson's radio officer in 1962 through mid-1963 had once been cited for his…

I'll be in My Stateroom
Unlike those in the real Navy, Michelson sailors bunked in staterooms. Just…

Nautical Traditions
Traditions of the Deepwatermen appeared during the late 1930s in the now defunct…

Turbulent Seas
After Balboa hacked his way across the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 he…

Belfast: Smithfield Market & Granny
One day while Michelson was in port I decided to go antique shopping at…

Sea of Darkness
The Hand of Satan on the Sea of Darkness,…

Reporting Aboard
A few days after Thanksgiving in November 1962 Michelson was tied up…

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