USNS Dutton (T-AGS-22) was an oceanographic survey ship for the United States Navy from the late 1950s through the 1980s.

After seven years of commercial service, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet in 1952.

[1] Attached aboard Dutton was a U.S. Navy Oceanographic Detachment, upgraded ca.

Varying numbers of civilian scientists and engineers managed survey operations and maintained certain navigation and sonar equipment, usually about 12 oceanographers from the Naval Oceanographic Office, some personnel from the Naval Applied Sciences Laboratory (NASL, later NSSNF), and about 7 technical representatives from private corporations.

[2] Contract award by MARAD in September 2007 to All Star Metals Inc. for scrapping in Brownsville, TX with ship fully dismantled on 5 June 2008.