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The Explorer-class ocean surveillance ship is a planned class of United States Navy special mission-support ship. Also known as the T-AGOS 25 program, the ships are planned to replace five other ocean surveillance ships and is speculated to be in response to modernized submarines from Russia and China. [ 2 ]
USNS Capable (T-AGOS-16) was a Stalwart-class modified tactical auxiliary general ocean surveillance ship of the United States Navy in service from 1989 to 2004. In 2008, she was commissioned into service in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as the oceanographic research ship NOAAS Okeanos Explorer (R 337) .
Wilton class (1 ship, launched 18 January 1972) open-water minesweeper and minehunter. Prototype ship built in Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) to same hull design as Ton class and forerunner of Hunt and Sandown classes also constructed in GRP. Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel (13 ships, launched 1978—1988) mine countermeasures vessels
Able is an MSC-crewed ocean surveillance ship that uses surveillance towed-array sensor system equipment to gather underwater acoustical data. The command operates the ship as part of its Special Mission Ships Program, using her to support the antisubmarine warfare mission of the commanders of the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets.
Ship Name Hull No. Delivery-Stricken Fate Link Stalwart: 1: 1984–2002: State University of New York Maritime College: NVR NavSource: Contender: 2: 1984–1992: T/V General Rudder, flagship and training vessel of the Texas A&M University at Galveston
USNS Soderman (T-AKR-317) is a Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off Ship (LMSR) and is part of the Military Sealift Command. The USNS Soderman is in the Preposition Program which stations ships across the world with military equipment. The Soderman is Watson-class vehicle cargo ship built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company. The ship was ...
Ship Year Possible or Last Known Location SS: Baychimo: 1969: Ghost ship last sighted in 1969 in Beaufort Sea off Alaska. [10] SS: Bannockburn: 1902: Lost on Lake Superior 21 November 1902 SS: Chicora: 1895: Lake freighter that sank on 21 January 1895 in Lake Michigan. [11] SS: D.M. Clemson: 1908: Lake freighter vanished in a violent Lake ...
All ships were capable of 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph), driven by a single screw steam turbine generating 9,900 shaft horsepower (7,400 kW). Among the variations of the design were the Haven-class hospital ship. They were followed post-war by thirty-seven of the larger C4-S-1 class, also known as the Mariner class. [1] [2]