From the Glory of the American Navy to the End on the Banks of the BR-101 in Itajaí-SC | Hull of the ship Almirante Câmara.
See what's left of the glorious ship that belonged to the US Navy and later the Brazilian Navy. The ship Almirante Câmara is scrapped in Itajaí and in this video I show how it is today. The ship is being dismantled for the sale of steel.
NOc Almirante Câmara (H-41) (USNS Sands (T-AGOR-6), United States Navy) was a Robert D. Conrad-class oceanographic research vessel of the Brazilian Navy from 1974 to 2003.
Construction of the Almirante began on August 23, 1962 by the Marietta Manufacturing Company. from Point Pleasant in West Virginia, with hull number 911, the first of three ships of its type built for the US Navy by the builder. The ship was launched on September 14, 1963, being sponsored by Miss Priscilla G. Sands, accepted by the Navy and placed in service with the then Military Maritime Transport Service (MSTS) on February 2, 1965, with master and captain George W. Fladerer in command of the ship.
UNITED STATES NAVY
Crewed by a Civil Service crew, the USNS Sands was operated in the Atlantic Ocean by the Military Maritime Transportation Command (formerly MSTS) for the Naval Oceanographic Office. The ship was operated by that office as one of the "Navy Pool" ships, for which the office coordinated use by Navy laboratories, universities, and research organizations under Navy contracts for various projects.
Until being placed out of service in reserve in April 1973, the Sands conducted oceanographic and marine geophysical surveys and conducted experiments in underwater sound propagation. For example, in the early 1970s, the Sands planted large underground vertical acoustic arrays in the tropical Atlantic. These arrays were unique in that they had long-term recording capabilities, allowing acoustic data to be collected over several months; and for the first use of the then new material Kevlar as a die strength member. Kevlar, created by DuPont for use as cables in vehicle tires, was found to have elongation characteristics that matched those of copper conductor wires embedded in a matrix. (Whereas a material like Dacron can stretch up to 50% before failure, Kevlar's limits extend to 2% before failure. This greatly reduced longitudinal stresses in the copper wires and allowed precise vertical positioning of the hydrophones in the vertical rope.) The Sands during this period also made acoustic data collection voyages in the area around Malta and in the lower Adriatic Sea. The Sands was taken out of service in 1973.
IN THE BRAZILIAN NAVY
On July 1, 1974, the ship was leased by the Brazilian Navy and renamed Almirante Camara, in honor of a great supporter of Brazilian hydrography, Admiral Antônio Alves Câmara Júnior, and placed in service under the command of Captain Fernando Carlos Catta Black Baumeir. In 1990, a purchase agreement for the vessel was signed by Brazil at the end of the lease. The purchase was completed under the Security Assistance Program on December 5, 1990. Almirante Camara was involved in South Atlantic research for Brazil, including international operations with US Navy survey and hydrographic vessels such as Hayes and Robert D. Conrad, and in support of the Brazilian Antarctic Program. Almirante Camara was decommissioned on August 7, 2003 in a ceremony at the Naval Base in Rio de Janeiro and later sold at auction in 2004.
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17 окт 2024
