USS John Blish (AGS 10) 



The former subchaser PCS 1457 built in 1944 by Ballard Marine 

 Railway Company of Seattle. In 1945 she was reclassified as the 

 survey ship AGS 10 and named John Blish. Throughout the 

 remaining months of the war she provided hydrographic infor- 

 mation for the Allied efforts in the Pacific and actively 

 participated in the invasion of Okinawa. In 1946 she was 

 reclassified as a coastal survey ship, the AGSC 10, and operated 

 off the West Coast. The John Blish also participated in Operation 



"Crossroads", the atomic weapons tests at Bikini in 1946. 

 Decommissioned in 1949, she was sold for scrapping the 

 following year. John Blish is shown passing the oldest pagoda in 

 China as she steams pass the small town of Anking on a 

 hydrographic survey of the Yangtze River. China in November 

 1945. This was the first official U.S. patrol up the Yangtze since 

 1937. 



Length: 136' Displacement: 245 tons 



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USS Anntstead Rust (AGS 9) 



Originally the subchaser PCS 1404 built in 1944 by Colbert Boat 

 Works of Stockton, California. In 1945 she was renamed 

 Armistead Rust and reclassified as the survey ship AGS 9. She 



conducted survey operations at Okinawa, the Philippines, 

 Manila, and Subic Bay. Decommissioned in 1946, she was sold in 

 1948. 



Length: 136' Displacement: 260 tons 



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