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Halter Marine Christens

Second Of Two Navy Survey Ships

Halter Marine, Inc., part of the

Trinity Marine Group and a subsid- iary of Trinity Industries, Inc., re- cently christened and launched the

USNS Littlehales (T-AGS-52).

The hydrographic survey ship is the second of two sister ships under construction at Halter for the Navy in a $25 million contract. When completed, both ships will be oper- ated by the Navy's Military Sealift

Command for the Naval Oceanogra- phy Command whose members con- duct the surveys.

The vessel is named in honor of

George Washington Littlehales, who was an authority in the fields of magnetics, hydrography, oceanogra- phy and cartography, serving in the

U.S. Hydrographic Office from 1885 to 1932.

Principal speaker at the ceremo- ny was Rep. Gene Taylor of Mis- sissippi's Fifth Congressional Dis- trict. The traditional bottle of champagne was broken on the ship's bow by Mrs. Lottchen V. Shiv- ers, granddaughter of Mr. Little- hales. Her daughter, Lottchen G.

Shivers, was the maid of honor.

The new ship is 208 feet in length, with a 45-foot beam and 22-1/2-foot depth. When completed, she will carry two 34-foot hydrographic sur- vey launches and will be operated by a crew of 22 MSC personnel. This is in addition to an 11-member scientist/survey party.

Littlehales will collect hydro- graphic data in water depths from 10 to 4,000 meters using hull mounted and towed sonars.

The Navy has the responsibility to collect all hydrographic data out- side the U.S. territorial waters. Data gathered on the survey missions un- dergoes initial processing at the

Naval Oceanographic Office at the

The Littlehales is the second in a series of two T-AGS constructed by Halter Marine under a $25 million contract.

Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, before being turned over to the De- fense Mapping Agency. There the data is used to prepare nautical charts for the armed forces and commercial interests.

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