USNS Bartlett

USNS Bartlett (T-AGOR-13) was a Robert D. Conrad-class oceanographic research ship acquired by the U.S. Navy (USN) in 1969. She was named after oceanographer Captain John R. Bartlett of the USN. She was placed in service for a period of time, and in 1993 was transferred to the Royal Moroccan Navy.

History
United States
Name: USNS Bartlett
Namesake: John R. Bartlett[1]
Builder: Northwest Marine Iron Works, Portland, Oregon
Laid down: 18 November 1965
Launched: 24 May 1966
Acquired: 31 March 1969 and assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service
Stricken: 30 August 1993
Identification: T-AGOR-13
Fate: Transferred to the Royal Moroccan Navy on 26 July 1993
Morocco
Name: Abou El Barakat Al Barbari
Identification: IMO number: 7742114
Status: In active service
General characteristics
Class and type: Robert D. Conrad-class oceanographic research ship
Tonnage: 1,520 tons
Length: 245 ft (74.7 m)
Beam: 46 ft (14.0 m)
Draft: 16 ft (4.9 m)
Propulsion: Diesel-electric, single propeller, 2,500 shp (1,900 kW), retractable azimuth-compensating bow thruster
Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 23 civilian mariners, 38 scientists

Construction and career

US service

Bartlett was built by the Northwest Marine Iron Works Portland, Oregon. She was laid down on 18 November 1965 and launched on 24 May 1966 and turned over to the Navy on an unknown date as USNS Bartlett (T-AGOR-13) and manned by the Military Sea Transportation Service.

Bartlett was placed in service, but the record of her history is not summarized by Navy. The ship is mentioned in oceanographic reports and literature. For example, the ship's use in planting two acoustic sources onto the top of Cobb Seamount between 25 and 30 July 1973 for an experiment is covered in a report of the Naval Research Laboratory.[2] In 1990 the ship spent some time in the North West Atlantic Ocean according to a data set of temperature and salinity measurements collected using CTD/XBT.[3] Bartlett was one of two AGOR ships, the other was De Steiguer, assigned as pool vessels for west coast Naval laboratory use according to a 1970 report.[4] Bartlett and De Steiguer were assigned to the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office for operation.[5]

Royal Moroccan Navy service

After being struck from the Navy List on 30 August 1993, Bartlett was approved on 26 July 1993 under the terms of the Security Assistance Program for a transfer to Morocco, where she then entered into service with the Moroccan Navy as Abou El Barakat Al Barbari.

References
  1. "AGOR Numeric List". Archived from the original on 4 February 2012. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  2. "AD-783 513/5; Cobb Seamount Fixed Platform Experiment using the USNS BARTLETT (T-AGOR-13)".
  3. "Oceanographic temperature and salinity measurements collected using CTD/XBT from the USNS BARTLETT in the North West Atlantic Ocean during 1990 (NODC Accession 0039820)".
  4. "NPGS Goes to Sea in All Hands magazine, August 1970, page 46" (PDF).
  5. "National Oceanographic Fleet Platform Characteristics, RP-53, January 1992, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office; pages 193, 195" (PDF).


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