[3] Bartlett was placed in service as a West Coast AGOR pool ship under the technical direction of the Naval Oceanographic Office.

[6] For example, the ship's use in planting two acoustic sources onto the top of Cobb Seamount between 25 and 30 July 1973 for an experiment is covered in a report of the Naval Research Laboratory.

[7] During October and November 1981 the ship did deep water trawls in the Venezuela Basin along with other observations and found some rare specimens that were deposited in a number of notable museums.

[8] In 1990 the ship spent some time in the North West Atlantic Ocean according to a data set of temperature and salinity measurements collected using CTD/XBT.

Bartlett was approved on 26 July 1993 under the terms of the Security Assistance Program for a transfer to Morocco, where she then entered into service with the Moroccan Navy as Abou El Barakat Al Barbari.