USS Banner (AKL-25)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Banner.


Career
USS Banner (AKL-25) at Hong Kong, 1959
Name:	Banner
Builder:	Kewaunee Shipbuilding and Engineering
Laid down:	1944
Commissioned:	24 November 1952
Decommissioned:	14 November 1969
Fate:	scrapped
General characteristics
Displacement:	550 tons light, 895 tons full, 345 tons dead
Length:	177 ft (54 m)
Beam:	32 ft (9.8 m)
Draft:	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion:	twin diesel
Speed:	12.7 knots (23.5 km/h)
Complement:	6 officers, 70 men
Armament:	2 × M2 Browning .50-caliber machine guns

The USS Banner (AKL-25, then AGER-1) was a United States Navy ship, first used as light auxiliary cargo (AKL), then from 1967 for electronic intelligence.

History

Banner was laid down for the United States Army as Captain William Galt at Kewaunee Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, USA. Its initial classification was FS-345,^[1] being part of design 381 coastal freighters. The ship was acquired by the US Navy on 1 July 1950 and placed in service by the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS T-AKL-25. The ship was transferred again to the U.S. Navy and commissioned ad USS Banner (AKL-25) on 24 November 1952, at Pearl Harbor, T.H., Lt. Horace W. Atkisson in command.

From August to October 1965, Banner was converted to an "environmental research ship" at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, in reality, the ship was converted to a SIGINT platform and designated AGER-1. The ship was part of the AGER program together with USS Pueblo (AGER-2) and USS Palm Beach (AGER-3).^[1]

Banner was decommissioned at Yokosuka, Japan, on 14 November 1969 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on the same day. It was sold for scrapping on 5 June 1970 to Mitsui & Co., Tadotsu, Japan.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.usspueblo.org/Background/AGER_Program.html US Navy AGER Program (Auxiliary General Environmental Research)

Cold War

USA USSR ANZUS NATO Non-Aligned Movement SEATO Warsaw Pact

1940s	Dekemvriana Yalta Conference Operation Unthinkable Potsdam Conference Gouzenko Affair Operation Masterdom Operation Beleaguer Operation Blacklist Forty Iran crisis of 1946 Greek Civil War Corfu Channel incident Turkish Straits crisis Restatement of Policy on Germany First Indochina War Truman Doctrine Asian Relations Conference Marshall Plan 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état Tito–Stalin Split Berlin Blockade Western betrayal Iron Curtain Eastern Bloc Western Bloc Chinese Civil War (Second round) Malayan Emergency

1950s	Bamboo Curtain Korean War 1953 Iranian coup d'état Uprising of 1953 in East Germany 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état Partition of Vietnam First Taiwan Strait Crisis Geneva Summit (1955) Poznań 1956 protests Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Suez Crisis Syrian Crisis of 1957 Sputnik crisis Second Taiwan Strait Crisis Cuban Revolution Kitchen Debate Bandung Conference Bricker Amendment McCarthyism Operation Gladio Iraqi July Revolution "We will bury you"

1960s	Congo Crisis Sino-Soviet split 1960 U-2 incident Bay of Pigs Invasion 1960 Turkish coup d'état Soviet–Albanian split Berlin Wall Portuguese Colonial War (Angolan War of Independence Guinea-Bissau War of Independence Mozambican War of Independence) Cuban Missile Crisis Sino-Indian War Sarawak Communist Insurgency Iraqi Ramadan Revolution 1963 Syrian coup d'état Vietnam War 1964 Brazilian coup d'état United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–66) South African Border War Transition to the New Order Domino theory ASEAN Declaration Laotian Civil War 1966 Syrian coup d'état Argentine Revolution Korean DMZ Conflict Greek military junta of 1967–74 USS Pueblo incident Six-Day War War of Attrition Cultural Revolution Prague Spring Malaysia Communist Insurgency War Invasion of Czechoslovakia Iraqi Ba'athist Revolution Goulash Communism Sino-Soviet border conflict Communist insurgency in the Philippines Corrective Move

1970s	Détente Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Black September in Jordan 1970 Syrian Corrective Revolution Cambodian Civil War Realpolitik Ping-pong diplomacy 1971 Turkish coup d'état Corrective Revolution (Egypt) Four Power Agreement on Berlin 1972 Nixon visit to China 1973 Chilean coup d'état Yom Kippur War Carnation Revolution Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Rhodesian Bush War Angolan Civil War Mozambican Civil War Ogaden War Ethiopian Civil War Lebanese Civil War Sino-Albanian split Cambodian–Vietnamese War Sino-Vietnamese War Iranian Revolution Operation Condor Dirty War Bangladesh Liberation War Korean Air Lines Flight 902 Seven Days to the River Rhine

1980s	Soviet war in Afghanistan 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics boycotts 1980 Turkish coup d'état 1986 Black Sea incident 1988 Black Sea bumping incident Solidarity Soviet reaction Contras Central American crisis RYAN Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Able Archer 83 Star Wars Invasion of Grenada People Power Revolution Nagorno-Karabakh War Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall Revolutions of 1989 Glasnost Perestroika

1990s	Mongolian Revolution of 1990 Breakup of Yugoslavia Dissolution of the Soviet Union Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Frozen conflicts	Abkhazia China Korea Nagorno-Karabakh South Ossetia Transnistria Sino-Indian border dispute

Foreign policy	Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Containment Eisenhower Doctrine Domino theory Hallstein Doctrine Kennedy Doctrine Peaceful coexistence Ostpolitik Johnson Doctrine Brezhnev Doctrine Nixon Doctrine Ulbricht Doctrine Carter Doctrine Reagan Doctrine Rollback Sovereignty of Puerto Rico during the Cold War

Ideologies	Capitalism Chicago school Keynesianism Monetarism Neoclassical economics Reaganomics Supply-side economics Thatcherism Communism Marxism–Leninism Castroism Eurocommunism Guevarism Hoxhaism Juche Maoism Naxalism Stalinism Titoism Liberal democracy Social democracy

Organizations	ASEAN CIA Comecon EEC KGB Non-Aligned Movement SAARC Safari Club MI6 Stasi

Propaganda	Active measures Izvestia Pravda Crusade for Freedom Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Red Scare TASS Voice of America Voice of Russia

Races	Arms race Nuclear arms race Space Race

See also	Brinkmanship NATO–Russia relations Soviet espionage in U.S. Russian espionage in U.S. Soviet Union–United States relations US–Soviet summits

Category Portal Timeline List of conflicts

Design 381 coastal freighters

Design 381	FS-253 FS-254 FS-255 FS-256 FS-257 FS-258 FS-259 FS-260 FS-261 FS-262 FS-263 FS-264 FS-265 FS-266 FS-267 FS-268 FS-269 FS-270 FS-271 FS-272 FS-273 FS-274 FS-275 FS-276 FS-277 FS-278 FS-279 FS-280 FS-281 FS-282 FS-283 FS-284 FS-285 FS-286 FS-287 FS-288 FS-289 FS-290 FS-291 FS-292 FS-309 FS-310 FS-311 FS-312 FS-313 FS-314 FS-315 FS-316 FS-317 FS-318 FS-319 FS-343 FS-344 FS-345 FS-346 FS-347 FS-348 FS-349 FS-350 FS-351 FS-352 FS-353 FS-354 FS-355 FS-356 FS-361 FS-362 FS-363 FS-364 FS-365 FS-366 FS-367 FS-371 FS-372 FS-373 FS-374 FS-383 FS-384 FS-385 FS-386 FS-387 FS-388 FS-389 FS-390 FS-391 FS-392 FS-393 FS-394 FS-395 FS-396 FS-397 FS-398 FS-399 FS-400 FS-404 FS-405 FS-406 FS-407 FS-408 FS-409 FS-410 FS-411 FS-524 FS-525 FS-526 FS-527 FS-528 FS-529 FS-546 FS-547 FS-548 FS-549 FS-550 FS-552 FS-553 FS-554

Design 381A	FS-368 FS-369 FS-370

List of ships of the United States Army