It was late in the summer of 1959, and I was in the US Navy serving aboard the USS Maury AGS-16. The ship, built in the 1940’s as an armed troop transport, was later converted to duty as a hydrographic survey vessel. Along with her sister ship, the USS Tanner AGS-15, she operated under contract with foreign countries to conduct surveys of coastal waterways. This particular six-month-long season for our ship was focused on a 600 mile long area of Turkey’s southern coastline, from a point west of Antalya to an area several miles east of Alanya. This area is considered the
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Fishing off the Coast of Turkey
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It was late in the summer of 1959, and I was in the US Navy serving aboard the USS Maury AGS-16. The ship, built in the 1940’s as an armed troop transport, was later converted to duty as a hydrographic survey vessel. Along with her sister ship, the USS Tanner AGS-15, she operated under contract with foreign countries to conduct surveys of coastal waterways. This particular six-month-long season for our ship was focused on a 600 mile long area of Turkey’s southern coastline, from a point west of Antalya to an area several miles east of Alanya. This area is considered the