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Photo # NH 64705-KN:  Insignia of USS Protector

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USS Protector (YAGR-11, later AGR-11), 1957-1965

USS Protector, a 10,760-ton (full load displacement) Guardian class ocean radar station ship, was built in 1945 at Panama City, Florida, as the 7176 gross ton liberty ship Warren P. Marks. During the next two years she was operated by three different commercial shipping companies and in September 1947 was laid up at Mobile Bay, Alabama, as part of the U.S. Maritime Administration's reserve fleet of merchant ships.

In June 1956 S.S. Warren P. Marks was turned over to the U.S. Navy and began conversion to a radar picket ship, intended to serve as part of a seaward extension of the North American continent's defenses against strategic air attack. Renamed Protector (YAGR-11), she was placed in commission in February 1957. Redesignated AGR-11 in October 1958, she operated in the North Atlantic during most of her active career, but served off Cuba during periods of tension betweent the U.S. and that nation in 1962. USS Protector was decommissioned in late July 1965 and placed in the Maritime Administration's reserve fleet in New York's Hudson River. She was permanently transferred to Marad in February 1966. In September 1970 the ship was moved to the James River Reserve Fleet, in Virginia. While in Marad custody in 1990, she was described as a "Scientific/Research vessel". In September 2004 a contract to scrap the now nearly sixty year old ship was awarded to a firm in Brownsville, Texas.

This page features the only view we have concerning USS Protector (YAGR-11, later AGR-11).


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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Photo #: NH 64705-KN (Color)

Insignia of USS Protector (AGR-11)

This emblem, designed for the ship by Gemsco, of New York City, was received prior to 1967.
Its Latin motto translates: "Sleep well, my country. We will watch".

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 96KB; 650 x 675 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at other views of USS Protector (AGR-11). The following list features some of these images:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."



  • Photo #: USN 1050567
    USS Protector (AGR-11) underway, 12 October 1960. Photographed by C.H. Snell.
    Aerial view taken from almost directly astern.

  • Photo #: USN 1050568
    As USN 1050567, but aerial view taken from almost directly ahead.

  • Photo #: USN 1050569
    As USN 1050567, but port quarter aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1050570
    As USN 1050567, but port broadside aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1050571
    As USN 1050567, but starboard bow aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1050572
    As USN 1050567, but starboard quarter aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1050573
    As USN 1050567, but starboard broadside aerial view.

  • Photo #: USN 1050574
    As USN 1050567, but port bow aerial view.


    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


  • If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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