OSV Bold docked in Port Canaveral, Florida |
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| Career (USA) | |
|---|---|
| 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: | 2500 tons |
| Length: | 224 ft (68 m) |
| Draft: | 15 feet |
| Propulsion: | Diesel Electric |
| Speed: | 11 knots |
| Complement: | 19 crew, 20 scientists |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
underwater video, sidescan sonar, and general sampling instruments such as corers, dredges, and trawls |
The Ocean Survey Vessel (OSV) Bold is operated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Originally commissioned as the USNS Victorious, it was renamed USNS Bold (T-AGOS-12) and was a Stalwart-class 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.
The ship was transferred to the EPA in 2004. The ship is equipped with sidescan sonar, underwater video, water and sediment sampling instruments in study of ocean and coastline. One of the major missions of the Bold is to monitor sites where materials dumped from dredging operations in U.S. ports for ecological impact.[1][2]
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