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Topic: NASA Motor Vessel (MV) Retriever
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Go4Launch
Member Posts: 549
From: Seminole, Fla.
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 02-20-2009 08:42 AM
   
Does anyone have any idea what ever happened to the MV Retriever, used to train the astronauts for water recovery? I'd think it may have been scrapped long ago? |
mark plas
Member Posts: 385
From: the Netherlands
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 02-20-2009 09:14 AM
Here it states that it went out of service in 1972. What about training for Skylab and ASTP? |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 732
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 02-21-2009 10:10 AM
This is a great question. It prompted me to spend the morning with my volumes of the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS), which has a rundown in the appendices of one volume that gives thumbnail histories of each LST. Thus far, nothing. The DANFS listing is frustratingly incomplete, because there were just so many of them; some of them were completed to modified configurations for other purposes, others went to the Military Sealift Transportation Service, and others were sold postwar into civilian use (including some sold to Humble Oil and Brown & Root). I'll keep looking, though, and if I come up with anything on what became of Retriever, I'll post it here. I have a suspicion, though, that like most LST-type ships (including my grandfather's), she ended up in the big shipyard in the sky many years ago. |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 732
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 05-05-2011 07:55 AM
Per an updated Wikipedia article (complete with pictures), Retriever was a considerably-modified Mark V LCT. The pictures are pretty neat, too. | |
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