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USS Grasp (ARS-51)
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Grasp (ARS-51), ready for launching, 21 May 1984, at Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, WI. |
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Christening of Grasp (ARS-51), 21 May 1984, by Mrs. Margaret Waller, wife of VADM Edward C. Waller. at Peterson Builders,
Sturgeon Bay, WI. |
Dale Hargrave |
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Grasp (ARS-51) immediately after launching, 21 May 1984, at Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, WI. |
Dale Hargrave |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) underway, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
USS Grasp (ARS-51) web site |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) underway, 16 October 1985.
US Navy photo # 851016-N-00000-001 |
USS Grasp (ARS-51) web site |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) moored pierside at La Spezia, Italy, 8 May 1989. |
Photo by Carlo Martinelli |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51), foreground, and the submarine rescue ship USS Kittiwake
(ASR-13) maintain position astern of the vessel M/V Greenpeace to prevent that vessel, which was operated by the environmental organization of the same name, from
attempting to disrupt the U.S. Navy's test launch of a Trident II D-5 submarine-launched ballistic missile off the coast of Florida on 4 December 1989.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Identifier 6452768 |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) moored pierside at Naval Station Key West, FL., in January 1990. Photo of John Skillman and David Prochotsky |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) moored pierside at Palma de Mallorca, Spain in November 1991. |
Photo by Pedro Vidal |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) moored pierside at Barcelona, Spain, 1 January 1992 |
Photo by
Ignacio Lopez
ex member Armada Espanola |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) underway on the Seine River near Duclair, France, 17 July 1994. |
Photo by Carlo Martinelli |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) anchored over the crash site of TWA Flight 800 offshore of Moriches Inlet, Long Island, N.Y., she it conducts diving operations, 25 July 25, 1996. Navy divers conducted dives to recover victims of the crash and parts of the airplane to aid in the investigation.
US DOD photo # 960725-N-6676W-026 by AN Charles L. Withrow. |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) anchored over the crash site of TWA Flight 800 offshore of Moriches Inlet, Long Island, N.Y., she it conducts diving operations, 25 July 25, 1996.
DOD photo |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) moored pierside, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
USS Grasp (ARS-51) web site |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) underway, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) moored at Naples, Italy, in June 1996. |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) gets underway, 18 July 1999, as her mooring lines are cast off by sailors assigned to the Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek port operations. USS Grasp assisted in search and recovery efforts for a private plane flown by John F. Kennedy Jr. and carrying his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and his sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette. The aircraft crashed July 17 off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass
US Navy photo # 990718-N-6967M-006 by PH2 Shane T. McCoy. |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) moored at La Spezia, Italy, 4 July 2000. |
Photo by Carlo Martinelli |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) pulls into the Taranto Naval Base Mar Grande to participate in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) submarine escape and rescue exercise Sorbet Royal 2005, 17 June 2005. USS Grasp transported the Atmospheric Diving System 2000 (ADS 2000), Submarine Rescue Chamber Eight (SRC 8) along with members of the U.S. Navy's deep submergence unit. Twenty-seven participating nations, including 14 NATO nations will test their capabilities and interoperability. Four submarines with up to 52 crew members aboard will be placed on the bottom of the ocean, while rescue forces with rescue vehicles and systems work together to solve complex disaster rescue problems.
US Navy photo # 050617-N-1464F-001 by JOC Dave Fliesen. |
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USS Grasp (ARS-51) under way, date and location unknown. |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51)
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During her decommissioning and transfer ceremony, 19 January 2006, MSC commander VADM. David L. Brewer III, USN, welcomes USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) to the MSC fleet.
US Navy Military Sealift Command photo by Bill Cook. |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) tows ex-USS Des Moines (CA-134) up the Brownsville ship channel enroute to the ESCO scrapping yard, at Brownsville, TX., circa 2006.
Photo ©Michael Martin, Brownsville, TX., 2006. |
TJ Tropea with permission of Michael Martin |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) tows ex-USS Des Moines (CA-134) up the Brownsville ship channel enroute to the ESCO scrapping yard, at Brownsville, TX., circa 2006.
US Navy photo from the Military Sealift Command collection. |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) berthed pierside in St John's Antigua, 16 July 2008. |
Curtis A. Smith, Captain, Civilian, USNS Grasp |
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A diver rides a stage to the seabed from USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) off St Kitts during Global Fleet Station 2008.
US Navy photo by MCCS Andrew McKaskle. |
Robert Hurst |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) towing the nuclear powered submarine
NR-1 along the Thames River past New London for the final time, 2 December 2008.
U.S. Navy photo # 081202-N-8467N-006 by John Narewski. |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) tows the NR-1 for the last time in January 2009. NR-1 is being laid up after over 40 years of service.
See the Sealift magazine, February 2009 story "Grasp tows NR-1,
MSC plays pivotal role in famous subs final days" by Rosemary Heiss MSC Public Affairs |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) arrives at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to put on stores and refuel while en route to provide humanitarian aid and disaster relief to Haiti. Grasp was diverted from its mission to assist with relief efforts following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010.
US Navy photo # 100117-N-8241M-088 GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (Jan. 17, 2010) by MCC Bill MestaBill Mesta. |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) lays alongside USNS Sacagawea (T-AKE-2) as an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter departs to deliver cargo to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20). Comfort received more than 200 pallets of supplies, which will allow the ship to support Operation Unified Response after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti January 12, 2010.
US Navy photo # 100301-N-6410J-163 CARIBBEAN SEA (March 1, 2010) by MC3 Matthew Jackson. |
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The rescue and salvage ship USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) tows ex-USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) out to sea, 26 October 2010, to be released 250 miles off the North Carolina coast. Aircraft launched from the USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-73) Carrier Strike Group struck the decommissioned resupply ship with bombs and air-to-surface missiles, sending it to the bottom of the Atlantic in a two-day sinking exercise (SINKEX).
Photo courtesy Fred Woody. |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) and USNS Grapple (T-ARS-53) moored pierside at Naples, Italy, circa July 2011 |
Photo by Timothy R. Lockwood, Master, USNS Grapple |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) departs for the Mediterranean Sea, 21 April 2012.
MSC photo. |
Lee Wahler |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) moored at Odessa, Ukraine, 3 July 2012. |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) moored pierside at Naval Station Little Creek, VA., date unknown. |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) moored pierside at Key West, FL., prior to departure on 25 June 2013.
Photo courtesy Chester Kalb. Southernmost-walker.blogspot |
Robert Hurst |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) under way after departing Key West, FL., on 25 June 2013.
Photo courtesy Chester Kalb. Southernmost-walker.blogspot |
Robert Hurst |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) under way, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) out bound to sea from Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story.
US Navy photo # 160505-N-OH262-927 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (May 5 2016) by Bill Mesta. |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) moored pierside at the Navy Dock Yard, Plymouth, UK, 10 June 2016. Grasp is dressed in flags for
the Queen Elizabeth's Birthday. |
Photo by Michael Butterfield |
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USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) moored on the breakwater at Ponta Delgata, Azores Islands, 3 September 2017 |
Photo by Carlos Manuel Estrela |
