USNS Waters (T-AGS-45)
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| Career (US) | |
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| Builder: | Avondale Industries, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Laid down: | 21 May 1991 |
| Launched: | 6 June 1992 |
| Acquired: | 26 May 1993 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 12,250 t.(fl) |
| Length: | 457 feet (139 m) |
| Beam: | 69 feet (21 m) |
| Draft: | 26 feet 10 inches (8.18 m) (max) |
| Propulsion: | diesel-electric drive, twin shafts 7,400 shaft horsepower |
| Speed: | 14 knots |
| Complement: | 32 Civilian Marines, 68 Sponsor |
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Description
USNS Waters (T-AGS 45) supports submarine navigation-system testing and provides ballistic missile flight test support services.
Features
USNS Waters is operated by Military Sealift Command to provide an operating platform and services for unique U.S. military and federal government missions. Special missions ships work for several different U.S. Navy customers, including Naval Sea Systems Command, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and the Oceanographer of the Navy.
Background
USNS Waters was originally an oceanographic survey ship, built by the Avondale Shipyard and delivered to the Navy in 1993. Under the sponsorship of the Strategic Systems Program Office, Waters was converted in 1998 by Deteyns Shipyard to support submarine navigation system testing and ballistic missile flight test support services. Waters began operating in the fall of 1999, replacing USNS Vanguard (T-AG 194), a submarine navigation system test platform ship, deactivated in 1998; and USNS Range Sentinel (T-AGM 22), a flight test navigation support ship deactivated in 1997.
External links
- Photo gallery at navsource.org
