In early July 1966 the ex-Calvert was moved to the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, Traffic Management School for use as a training hulk until 1976.
Supply Corps Takes Command of USS Calvert. Navy Supply Corps Newsletter. November, 1966. p27
Photographs and full article online at:
https://books.google.com/books?id=xK14fJTDXB4C&pg=RA10-PA27&dq=%22uss+calvert%22&hl=en&ppis=_c&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmnbu98cDnAhX1kHIEHaCvCToQ6AEwAnoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=%22uss%20calvert%22&f=falseSource: Translog. Volume 2. 1970-1971. Page 17. Public domain: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435031018849&view=image&seq=92&q1=calvert Then use the “Search in this text” using Calvert as the search term.
The ex-USS Calvert was sold to Levin Metals Corp (LMC), Richmand, CA on February 14, 1977 (contract # MA-8617) and physically delivered to LMC on March 11, 1977.
Source: Calversion-Vol-No-33-1995 – provided by Tom Glickman
In the summer of 1990 the Levin Metals Corp contacted John L. Cole for purposes of safely delivering the Calvert’s brass and wood name board, thus being saved from disposal.
USS Calvert name board – Saved
“It is now 1991 … Back in 1978 the Levin Metals Co. of Richmond, Ca. scrapped out the Calvert, they sent me parts of the ship.
Last summer (1990) I received a call from them again. They wanted to know if I was interested in the ship’s nameboard that hung on either side of the bridge. I said I was interested and they said that they would ship it to me. Well it came, and I am happy. The board is seven feet long and nine inches high. The words U.S.S. Calvert APA 32, are made of brass and are six inches high.
It seems that Levin kept these boards from all the ships that they scrapped and since someone had just bought them out, they wanted to clean house. Since I had been sending them a newsletter since day one, they thought I might want it.
Levin, thank you very much.”
John L. Cole – Calversion V24, p1
The living history of the USS Calvert, and her crew, continues.
With the Calvert Marine Museum’s commitment to preserve and share the Calvert’s story, former crew members and their families willingness to keep the Calvert’s story alive, and this website, the Calvert will not soon be forgotten. She was a respected and capable ship, celebrated by her crew, and she continues to earn respect for those who learn of her and her crews’ story.
