Wyman II

Wyman II

(T-AGS-34: dp. 2,596 (f.), 1. 286'7~", b. 48'0", dr.
15'0"; s. 15.5 k.; cpl. 43; cl. Wilkea)

The second Wyman (T-AGS-34)—an oceanographic survey vessel—was laid down on 18 July 1968 at Bay City, Mich., by the Defoe Shipbuilding Co., launched on 30 October 1969, sponsored by Mrs. Francis J. Blouin, wife of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Vice Admiral F. J. Blouin, and was accepted by the Military Sealift Command (MSC) on 19 November 1971 at the Boston Naval Shipyard. J. H. Blythe was the ship's first civil service master.

Wyman, designed and built to conduct hydrographic and oceanographic studies and operated by a civilian crew, serves with MSC under the technical direction of the Oceanographer of the Navy. Initially assigned to MSC Atlantic, Wyman was transferred to MSC Pacific on 16 November 1974 for a brief tour of duty that lasted into the summer of 1975. She was returned to MSC Atlantic at Port Canaveral, Fla., on 21 August 1976 and remained active with that fleet into 1979.