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USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner -class environmental research ship, placed into service during World War II, then converted to a spy ship in 1967 by the United States Navy. She gathered intelligence and oceanographic information, monitoring electronic and radio signals from North Korea.
- 20-23 January 1968
- Sea of Japan
Sep 15, 2023 · The Pueblo was never decommissioned and remains the second-oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command. It is now open near The Victorious ...
Dec 23, 2015 · 47 Years ago today, 82 crew members of the USS PUEBLO (AGER-2) were released after 338 days in captivity in North Korea. On January 28, 1968, fourteen miles from North Korean land, the USS PUEBLO was attacked and captured by overwhelming forces from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The crew was detained and interrogated until ...
Transferred to the Navy on 12 April 1966, she was renamed USS Pueblo and was classified as a light cargo ship (AKL-44). After conversion at Puget Sound, she was reclassified to AGER-2 ( Banner...
Jul 21, 2020 · A U.S. Army light freighter launched during World War II, the fifty-four-meter-long Pueblo had been recommissioned by the Navy in 1966s to serve as an “environmental research ship.”
It has been 20 years since the North Koreans boarded and captured the intelligence gathering ship, USS Pueblo (AGER-2), on 23 January 1968, taking her 83-man crew as hostages for 11 months. By 22 December when the crew was released, a sailor who was seriously wounded when the ship was seized had died in captivity.
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Feb 27, 2021 · The newly-freed sailors were about to leave for the U.S., having spent the past 11 months in captivity after the intelligence ship's capture by the North Koreans. In February, 2021, a federal ...
