USNS Worthy (T-AGOS-14)
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USNS Worthy (T-AGOS-14) at Washington Navy Yard, 1989. |
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Career (US) | |
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Ordered: | April 5, 1985 |
Builder: | VT Halter Marine, Inc., Moss Point, Mississippi |
Laid down: | April 3, 1986 |
Launched: | February 6, 1988 |
Struck: | May 20, 1993 |
Fate: | Converted to a Missile Range Instrumentation Ship at Kwajalein Atoll's Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 1,565 t.(lt) 2,535 t.(fl) |
Length: | 224 ft (68 m) |
Beam: | 43 ft (13 m) |
Draught: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
Propulsion: | diesel-electric, two shafts, 1,600 hp |
Speed: | 11 knots |
USNS Worthy (T-AGOS-14) was a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship of the United States Navy.
[edit] History
Stalwart class ships were originally designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of Cold War anti-submarine warfare operations in the 1980s. USNS Worthy was stricken from the Navy registry in 1993 and modified to be Kwajalein Mobile Range Safety System (KMRSS) Worthy, a Missile Range Instrumentation Ship at Kwajalein Atoll's Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, operated by the United States Army. [1]
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