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Stalwart class tactical auxiliary general ocean surveillance ships

Stalwart-class
Stalwart as originally configured. Aft view of equipment for the Surveillance Towed-Array Sensor System (SURTASS), 1986.
USNS Stalwart
Class overview
Builders:
Operators:
Preceded by: None
Succeeded by: Victorious class
In service: April 12, 1984
Completed: 18
Active: 2 not stricken by Naval Vessel Register
General characteristics
Displacement: 1,565 t.(lt) 2,535 t.(fl)
Length: 224 ft (68 m)
Beam: 43 ft (13 m)
Draft: 15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion: diesel-electric, two shafts, 1,600 hp (1,200 kW)
Speed: 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement: 36

Stalwart-class auxiliary general ocean surveillance ships (T-AGOS) were a class of United States Naval Ship (USNS) auxiliary support Ocean Surveillance Ships commissioned between April 1984 and January 1990. Their original purpose was to collect underwater acoustical information using the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS), a towed array passive sonar.

Stalwart, Indomitable, and Capable were modified to support narcotics interdiction by removing SURTASS equipment and adding an air-search radar and tactical data link equipment.



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