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The second ship eventually to be named Oxford by the Navy, AGTR-1, a Liberty ship, was laid down 23 June 1945 under Maritime Commission contract by the New England Shipbuilding Corp. of Portland, Maine as a merchant marine naval cargo ship; launched 31 July 1945 as Samuel R. Aitken (MCE–3127); sponsored by Mrs. Margaret C. Aitken; and delivered to the Maritime Commission 25 August 1945.
USS Oxford is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy: USS Oxford (APA-189) , an attack transport commissioned 11 September 1944. USS Oxford (AGTR-1) , laid down 23 June 1945.
An aerial view of Cubi Point, and in the background, Naval Station Subic Bay. Naval Base Subic Bay was a major ship-repair, supply, and rest and recreation facility of the Spanish Navy and subsequently the United States Navy located in Zambales, Philippines. The base was 262 square miles (680 km 2), about the size of Singapore. [1]
These ships were classified as naval auxiliaries with a hull designation of AGTR, which stands for Auxiliary, General, Technical Research. Five of these ships were built with hull numbers of 1–5. The first three ships of this type (Oxford, Georgetown, and Jamestown) were converted from World War II-era Liberty ships.
Subic Bay is a bay on the west coast of the island of Luzon in the Philippines, about 100 kilometers (62 mi) northwest of Manila Bay.An extension of the South China Sea, its shores were formerly the site of a major United States Navy facility, U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, now an industrial and commercial area known as the Subic Bay Freeport Zone under the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority.
USS Canopus with all six members of Submarine Division 17 in Apra Harbor, Guam, October 1924 USS Canopus (AS-9) in 1932 with S-37; S-40; S-36; S-38; S-41; S-39 at Naval Base Cavite The ship USS Wyoming (BM-10) built in 1902 was used as the first submarine tender . [ 7 ]
The Oxford class of technical research ships were a class of three World War II Liberty ships converted in the early 1960s to provide a seaborne platform for global eavesdropping on behalf of the National Security Agency.
U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay (Olongapo Naval Station) closed 1992, now Subic Special Economic and Freeport Zone; Leyte-Samar Naval Base (1944–1947) Naval Base Fiji (1942–1945) Naval Base Noumea at Nouméa, New Caledonia, major staging base (1942–1956)