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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

USNS Hayes (T-AG-195)
ex
USNS Hayes (T-AGOR-16) (1971 - 1992)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Hotel - Alpha - Yankee NHAY

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

National Defense Service Medal

Hayes Class Oceanographic Research Ship:

Laid down, 12 November 1969, at Todd Shipyards, Corp., Seattle, WA.

Launched, 2 July 1970

Delivered to the Navy, 21 July 1971 and placed in service by the Military Sealift Command (MSC) as USNS Hayes (T-AGOR-16)

Assigned to the Ready Reserve, 10 June 1983

Custody transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) in 1984 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA.

Reacquired by the Navy during FY86 and converted to an Acoustic Research Ship

Placed in service by MSC as USNS Hayes (T-AG-195) in early 1992

Hayes performed acoustic research in support of the submarine noise reduction program

Inactivated and struck from the Naval Register, 3 December 2008

Laid up at NAVSEA Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA.

Final Disposition, Ex-USNS Hayes (T-AG-195) departed Philadelphia NISMF for scrapping at Brownsville TX., 16 December 2021

Specifications:
Displacement 2,329 t.(lt) 4,521 t.(fl)
Length 246'
Beam 75'
Draft 22' (max)
Speed 17 kts. (max)

Complement

26 civilian mariners

30 scientific party

Propulsion

Diesel-electric, two Caterpillar diesel engines, 3,620hp

two generators, two Westinghouse electric motors, 2,400hp

two auxiliary diesel (for creep speed) 330hp

two propellers

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USNS Hayes (T-AGOR-16)
	114k	*Namesake* Dr. Harvey Cornelius Hayes began his career with the Navy during WW I, working at the Navy Experimental Station located at Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut. After the war he continued his efforts at the Navy Experimental Station in Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Hayes became the first superintendent of the Naval Research Laboratory’s Sound Division when the laboratory opened in 1923 and served in that position for 24 years, retiring in 1947. Dr. Hayes research included a broad range of acoustic research topics. In addition to the sonic depth finder and the development of operational sonar’s for the Navy, he also explored diverse areas such as lamination defects in metal plates, electrodynamics sound projectors, sound radiation from ships propellers, acoustically transparent materials for sonar domes, microphones and accelerometers. Dr. Hayes is recognized as the first person to accumulate any substantial amount data at sea and was later responsible for one of the two operational sonar equipments used by the Navy at the outbreak of World War II. Admiral Karl Doenitz, Grand Admiral of the German Navy, said “… the enemy has rendered the U-boat ineffective, not by superior tactics or strategy, but through superiority in the field of science, which finds its expression in the modern battle weapon—detection.” These are among the highest words of tribute to the genius and inventiveness of the Navy’s acoustic pioneers spearheaded by Dr. Hayes.	Bill Gonyo
	225k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)*, artist's conception sketch, circa 1968. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 79134*	Robert Hurst
	303k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)**, launching at Todd Shipyards, Seattle, 2 July 1970. US Navy photo	CDR. Louis D. Chirillo USN Ret
	139k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)** fitting out at Todd Shipyards, Seattle, WA., circa 1970-71. Todd Shipyards Corp. photo.	Robert Hurst
	360k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)** under way for sea trials, aerial port quarter view, November 1970. US Navy photo	CDR. Louis D. Chirillo USN Ret
	256k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)** under way, head on view, sea trials, November 1970. US Navy photo	CDR. Louis D. Chirillo USN Ret
	301k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)** under way during sea trials in November 1970, port quarter view. US Navy photo	CDR. Louis D. Chirillo USN Ret
	340k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)** under way during sea trials, aerial port bow view, November 1970. US Navy photo	CDR. Louis D. Chirillo USN Ret
	41k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)** under way in August 1972, location unknown.	Robert Hurst
094919521	111k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)** underway, circa 1974. U.S. Navy All Hands magazine May 1974, p. 49.	Robert Hurst
094919522	203k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)** underway off Norfolk, VA., date unknown. ©Nobe Smith.	Nicholas Tiberio
	70k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)** underway during sea trials, aerial port bow view. US Navy photo	MSC web site
	62k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16) under way with USNS Lynch (T-AGOR-7)** in foreground.	Bill Valashinas
	306k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)** Welcome Aboard brochure, cover and pages 1 and 2	Carl R Friberg Jr
	466k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AGOR-16)** Welcome Aboard brochure inside pages 3 through 6	Carl R Friberg Jr
USNS Hayes (T-AG-195)
094919520	256k	The Acoustic Research Ship *USNS Hayes* (T-AG-195)** in port, location unknown, 16 July 2008. Photo by Rennett Stowe	Robert Hurst
	100k	*USNS Hayes* (T-AG-195)** underway, aerial port bow view. US Navy photo	.
	170k	Ex-*USNS Hayes* (T-AG-195) under tow at Hampton Roads, VA., 3 December 2008, after her inactivation on the same date. Ex-Hayes** was towed to the Naval Ship Inactive Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA. for lay up.	Photo by Mabel Clark
094919515	316k	Ex-*USNS Hayes* (T-AG-195)** moored at Navy Inactive Ships Onsite Maintenance Officer Philadelphia, Philadelphia Navy Yard Wharf “N”, 3 June 2020	Photos by Joseph J. LaPenna Jr.
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