USS Maury (AGS-16)
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| Name: | USS Renate |
| Builder: | Walsh-Kaiser Company, Providence, Rhode Island |
| Laid down: | 21 November 1944 |
| Launched: | 31 January 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 28 February 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 December 1969 |
| Renamed: | USS Maury, 12 July 1946 |
| Reclassified: | AGS-16 (survey ship), 12 July 1946 |
| Struck: | 19 December 1969 |
| Honours and awards: |
6 battle stars and Meritorious Unit Commendation (Vietnam) |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap in 1973 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Artemis-class attack cargo ship |
| Type: | S4–SE2–BE1 |
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| Length: | 426 ft (130 m) |
| Beam: | 58 ft (18 m) |
| Draft: | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
| Speed: | 16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 303 officers and enlisted |
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USS Maury (AGS-16) was a surveying ship in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1969.
The ship was originally laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC Hull 1897) as USS Renate (AKA-36) on 21 November 1944 at Providence, R.I., by Walsh-Kaiser Co., Inc.; launched on 31 January 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Joseph L. Baker; and commissioned at State Pier No.1, Providence, on 28 February 1945, Lt. Cmdr. Joseph F. Wickham, USNR, in command. Renate was an Artemis-class attack cargo ship named after the minor planet 575 Renate. "Renate" is a female German surname derived from Latin "renatus" (= born again). The ship was later converted for hydrographic missions and renamed USS Maury (AGS-16) in 1946, named after the astronomer and hydrographer Matthew Fontaine Maury.
After completing her fitting-out at Boston, Massachusetts (USA), Renate conducted shakedown training in Chesapeake Bay (13–19 March), after which time she underwent post-shakedown availability at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia (USA); she ultimately sailed for the Panama Canal Zone on 31 March 1945. After transiting the canal, she arrived at Balboa on 6 April, and sailed thence two days later, bound for Hawaiian waters and steaming independently. Renate reached Pearl Harbor on 21 April, underwent an inspection six days later, and completed discharging cargo on the 29th.
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