USNS Bold (T-AGOS-12)

Career (USA)
USNS Bold (T-AGOS-12) at the Washington Navy Yard.
Ordered:	30 September 1987
Builder:	Tacoma Boatbuilding Company
Laid down:	13 June 1988
Launched:	24 May 1989
Acquired:	16 October 1989
Struck:	3 March 2004
Status:	Transferred to the EPA
General characteristics
Class and type:	Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship
Displacement:	2535 tons
Length:	224 ft (68 m)
Propulsion:	Diesel Electric
Complement:	Officers: 7 Enlisted: 13

For other ships of the same name, see USS Bold.

USNS Bold (T-AGOS-12) was a Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship of the United States Navy.

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 Bold is now EPA OSV Bold. [1]

[edit] References

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
NavSource
EPA

v • d • e Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship

Stalwart \| Contender \| Vindicator \| Triumph \| Assurance \| Persistent \| Indomitable \| Prevail \| Assertive \| Invincible \| Audacious \| *Bold* \| Adventurous \| Worthy \| Titan \| Capable \| Tenacious \| Relentless

List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy

This article about a specific United States Navy or Coast Guard ship or boat is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.