USNS Stalwart (T-AGOS-1)
USNS Stalwart
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 United States
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| Name: | Stalwart |
| Ordered: | 26 September 1980 |
| Builder: | Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Washington |
| Laid down: | 3 November 1982 |
| Launched: | 11 July 1983 |
| Acquired: | 14 May 2004 |
| In service: | 12 April 1984 |
| Out of service: | 15 November 2002 |
| Struck: | 2 December 2002 |
| Fate: | Donated to State University of New York Maritime College |
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 United States
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| Name: | SUNY Maritime |
| Operator: | State University of New York Maritime College |
| Out of service: | February 3, 2011 |
| Reclassified: | Training vessel |
| Homeport: | Fort Schuyler, NY |
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| Status: | Sold, Stabbert Marine |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship |
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| Length: | 224 ft (68 m) |
| Beam: | 43 ft (13 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Caterpillar diesel-electric engines, two shafts, 1,600 hp |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h) |
| Complement: | 17 CIVMAR, 15 MILDET |
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| Notes: | Statistics during military service |
USNS Stalwart (T-AGOS-1) was a Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship and the lead ship of the her class.
Stalwart was laid down on 3 November 1982 by the Tacoma Boat Building Company. She was launched on 11 July 1983 and entered service with the United States Military Sealift Command on 12 April 1984. The ship served as an anti-submarine surveillance ship during the Cold War, then as an anti-drug smuggling vessel as part of the United States' War on Drugs.
Stalwart left military service on 15 November 2002, and was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 2 December 2002. She was donated to the State University of New York Maritime College (SUNY-Maritime), and was renamed SUNY Maritime. She was sold in 2011 to Stabbert Maritime and sent to Norfolk Shipyards for restoration and renamed R/V Ocean Stalwart.
Stalwart was laid down on 3 November 1982 by the Tacoma Boat Building Company, in Tacoma, Washington. She was launched on 11 July 1983, and entered service with the United States Military Sealift Command on 12 April 1984.
Stalwart and her sister ships were designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of Cold War anti-submarine warfare operations in the 1980s. The main equipment used for this role was the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS), a collection of acoustic sensors that process and transmit data by satellite to shore bases for in-depth analysis. SURTASS was a neutrally buoyant, 8,575-foot (2,614 m) array deployed on a 6,000 feet (1,800 m) tow cable, capable of operating between 500 and 1,500 feet (150 and 460 m) in depth.
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