USNS Sword Knot (T-AGM-13)
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| Name: | USNS Sword Knot |
| Namesake: | A name retained |
| Builder: | Consolidated Steel Corporation, Ltd., Wilmington, California |
| Laid down: | date unknown, as a type (C1-M-AV1) hull, MC hull 2466 |
| Launched: | 14 March 1945 |
| Completed: | May 1945 |
| Acquired: | by the U.S. Navy in 1964 |
| In service: | circa 1958 |
| Out of service: | date unknown |
| Fate: | scrapped in 1973 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | missile range instrumentation ship |
| Tonnage: | 3,366 tons |
| Tons burthen: | 6,090 tons |
| Length: | 338' 9" |
| Beam: | 50' 4" |
| Draft: | 17' 7" |
| Propulsion: | Diesel, single propeller |
| Speed: | 11.5 knots |
| Endurance: | 30 days at sea |
| Complement: | unknown |
| Sensors and processing systems: | telemetry |
| Armament: | none |
USNS Sword Knot (T-AGM-13) was a missile range instrumentation ship which operated as USAFS Sword Knot on the U.S. Air Force’s Eastern Test Range during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Sword Knot operated under an Air Force contract with Pan American Airways Guided Missile Range Division headquartered in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Sword Knot, assigned to the South Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean area, provided the Air Force with metric data on intercontinental ballistic missiles launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida.
Sword Knot operated in the intercontinental ballistic missile re-entry area near Ascension Island, and was home-ported out of Recife, Brazil.
Operational data
Inactivation
See also
- Missile Range Instrumentation Ship
- United States Air Force ships
- Eastern Test Range
- Pan American Airways Guided Missile Range Division
- Missile Test Project
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