U.S. LIGHT TARGET NO 1,1X35 radio controlled target ship
Nov 15, 2022 14:09:24 GMT
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Post by JeffS on Nov 15, 2022 14:09:24 GMT
Ship was originally the USS STUDDERT, and from our wikiFriends the following was gleaned:
Under terms of the London Treaty for Reduction of Naval Armament, Stoddert was decommissioned on 20 May 1930 and delivered to the Mare Island Navy Yard for retention by conversion to a radio-controlled target ship. This was in accordance with the Navy's decision to fit out a unit of three destroyers as radio-controlled light targets for the purpose of conducting Fleet exercises requiring' the use of high speed targets. Stoddert, designated Light Target No. 1, received the initial installation. Its experimental radio control apparatus paved the way for later fitting out of remote-controlled Boggs (DD-136) and Lamberton (DD-119), and pointed the way for the more elaborate equipment of the famous radio-controlled target ship Utah (AG-16).
It was recommissioned on 6 April 1931; reclassified as miscellaneous auxiliary, AG-18, on 30 June 1931 and redesignated DD-302 on 16 April 1932. After experimental operations, it became an element of Mobile Target Division 1. From its base at San Diego, Stoddert was the target for dive bombing, aerial torpedoes, and fleet gunnery exercises along the coast of California. It spent much of its time as the dive-bombing and torpedo attack target ship for the aircraft of Saratoga (CV-3).
Under terms of the London Treaty for Reduction of Naval Armament, Stoddert was decommissioned on 20 May 1930 and delivered to the Mare Island Navy Yard for retention by conversion to a radio-controlled target ship. This was in accordance with the Navy's decision to fit out a unit of three destroyers as radio-controlled light targets for the purpose of conducting Fleet exercises requiring' the use of high speed targets. Stoddert, designated Light Target No. 1, received the initial installation. Its experimental radio control apparatus paved the way for later fitting out of remote-controlled Boggs (DD-136) and Lamberton (DD-119), and pointed the way for the more elaborate equipment of the famous radio-controlled target ship Utah (AG-16).
It was recommissioned on 6 April 1931; reclassified as miscellaneous auxiliary, AG-18, on 30 June 1931 and redesignated DD-302 on 16 April 1932. After experimental operations, it became an element of Mobile Target Division 1. From its base at San Diego, Stoddert was the target for dive bombing, aerial torpedoes, and fleet gunnery exercises along the coast of California. It spent much of its time as the dive-bombing and torpedo attack target ship for the aircraft of Saratoga (CV-3).
