USNS Bruce C. Heezen (T-AGS-64)

Career (USA)
USNS Bruce C. Heezen
Namesake:	Bruce C. Heezen
Owner:	United States Navy
Operator:	Military Sealift Command
Awarded:	13 January 1997
Builder:	Halter Marine
Laid down:	19 August 1997
Launched:	25 March 1999
In service:	13 January 2000
Status:	Active in service as of 2008
General characteristics
Class and type:	Pathfinder-class survey ship
Displacement:	5,000 long tons
Length:	329 ft (100 m)
Beam:	58 ft (18 m)
Draft:	19 ft (5.8 m)
Speed:	16 kn (30 km/h)
Complement:	26 mariners/27 sponsor personnel

USNS Bruce C. Heezen (T-AGS 64) is a Pathfinder class oceanographic survey ship. It is the fifth ship in the class. She is named after Bruce C. Heezen, who was the leader of the team from Columbia University that discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the 1950s.

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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.