R/V Argo, 1960-1968

USS Snatch (ARS-27/T-AGOR-18), a ship later identified as R/V Argo , was an Diver-class rescue and salvage ship commissioned by the U.S. Navy during World War II. Her task was to come to the aid of stricken vessels.

Snatch was laid down on 28 September 1943 by the Basalt Rock Co., Napa, California; launched on 8 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs. S. B. Johnson; and commissioned on 11 December 1944.

On 1 April 1967, she was assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) and reclassified Oceanographic Research Ship, USNS Snatch (T-AGOR-18), April 1967. Custody was assigned to Scripps Oceanographic Research Institute, La Jolla, California, who gave her the unofficial name of R/V Argo.

She was returned to US Naval custody in March 1970 and struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1970. Final Disposition: sold for scrapping, 8 November 1971, to S.S. Zee, Taiwan.

[Taken from the entries on USS Snatch in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, and Wikipedia.]