High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Oceanographer (AGS-3) was a survey ship of the United States Navy during World War II that produced charts chiefly of passages in the Solomon Islands area of the Pacific Ocean. Upon transfer to the Navy, she had initially been named and classed as gunboat USS Natchez (PG-85). Before her World War II Navy service, she had been USC GS Oceanographer (OSS-26), a survey ship with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1930.