USNS Assurance (T-AGOS-5)

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Assurance alongside Triumph at Pearl Harbor.
Assurance alongside Triumph at Pearl Harbor.

USNS Assurance (T-AGOS-5) was a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship of the United States Navy.

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Stalwart class ships were originally designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of Cold war anti-submarine warfare operations in the 1980s. ex-USNS Assurance was transferred to Portugal and is now Almirante Gago Coutinho (A-533). [1]

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Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship

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List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy