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Mission Santa Ynez (War Shipping Administration)
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Mission Santa Inés (Ynez) was a Spanish mission in the present-day city of Solvang, CA., and named after St. Agnes of Rome. Founded on September 17, 1804, by Father
Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission Santa Barbara and Mission La Purísima Concepción, and was designed
to relieve overcrowding at those two missions and to serve the Indians living north of the Coast Range.
The mission was home to the first learning institution in Alta California[5] and today serves as a museum as well as a parish church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
It is also designated a National Historic Landmark, noted as one of the best-preserved of the 21 California missions. |
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Mission Santa Ynez under construction on Way # 1 at the Marinship Corp., Sausalito, CA., 50 days after keel laying.
US Maritime Commission photo by Marinship courtesy Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages, |
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Mission Santa Ynez under construction on Way # 1 at the Marinship Corp., Sausalito, CA., 78 days after keel laying.
US Maritime Commission photo by Marinship courtesy Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages, |
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Mission Santa Ynez underway , probably during builders trials in San Francisco Bay, circa February-March 1944.
US Maritime Commission photo by Marinship courtesy Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages, |
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USNS Mission Santa Ynez (T-AO-134)
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USNS Mission Santa Ynez (T-AO-134) underway , date and location unknown.
US Navy photo from "Jane's Fighting Ships 1971-72". |
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USNS Mission Santa Ynez (T-AO-134) underway , date and location unknown. |
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Ex-USNS Mission Santa Ynez (T-AO-134) laid up in reserve in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., date unknown. |
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Ex-USNS Mission Santa Ynez (T-AO-134) at Carquinez Strait while under tow from the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, to Mare Island,
31 March 2010, for drydocking and bottom cleaning before being towed to Brownsville, TX., for dismantling.
Photo Courtesy Jcmartin68. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. |
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Ex-USNS Mission Santa Ynez (T-AO-134) under tow on her final voyage, eastbound in the Panama Canal enroute to Brownsville, TX. for
dismantling. |
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