USNS Bartlett

USNS Bartlett (T-AGOR-13) was a  oceanographic research ship acquired by the U.S. Navy (USN) in 1969.  She was named after oceanographer Captain John R. Bartlett of the USN.  She was placed in service for a period of time, and in 1993 was transferred to the Royal Moroccan Navy.

Construction and career

US service
Bartlett was built by the Northwest Marine Iron Works Portland, Oregon. She was laid down on 18 November 1965 and launched on 24 May 1966 and turned over to the Navy on an unknown date as USNS Bartlett (T-AGOR-13) and manned by the Military Sea Transportation Service.

Bartlett was placed in service, but the record of her history is not summarized by Navy. The ship is mentioned in oceanographic reports and literature. For example, the ship's use in planting two acoustic sources onto the top of Cobb Seamount between 25 and 30 July 1973 for an experiment is covered in a report of the Naval Research Laboratory. In 1990 the ship spent some time in the North West Atlantic Ocean according to a data set of temperature and salinity measurements collected using CTD/XBT. Bartlett was one of two AGOR ships, the other was , assigned as pool vessels for west coast Naval laboratory use according to a 1970 report. Bartlett and De Steiguer were assigned to the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office for operation.

Royal Moroccan Navy service
After being struck from the Navy List on 30 August 1993, Bartlett was approved on 26 July 1993 under the terms of the Security Assistance Program for a transfer to Morocco, where she then entered into service with the Moroccan Navy as Abou El Barakat Al Barbari.

References

External links
 NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - T-AGOR-13 Bartlett

Category:Robert D. Conrad-class oceanographic research ships
Category:Research vessels of the United States Navy
Category:Ships built in Portland, Oregon
Category:1966 ships
Category:Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Moroccan Navy
Category:Auxiliary ships of the Royal Moroccan Navy