USNS Bowditch (T-AGS-62)
For other ships of the same name, see USS Bowditch.
 USNS Bowditch at Sea | |
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | USNS Bowditch (T-AGS 62) |
| Owner: | United States Navy |
| Operator: | Military Sealift Command |
| Awarded: | 29 May 1992 |
| Builder: | Halter Marine |
| Laid down: | 16 June 1993 |
| Launched: | 15 October 1994 |
| In service: | 19 July 1996 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2015 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Pathfinder-class survey ship |
| Displacement: | 4,762 long tons |
| Length: | 329 ft (100 m) |
| Beam: | 58 ft (18 m) |
| Draft: | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Speed: | 16.0 knots (29.6 km/h; 18.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 26 Civilian Personal/27 military sponsor personnel |
USNS Bowditch (T-AGS 62) is a Pathfinder class oceanographic survey ship. She is the third ship in the class. The USNS Bowditch is a part of a 29 ship Special Mission Ship program and operates in the South China Sea. She is named after Nathaniel Bowditch, generally regarded as the founding father of modern navigation and oceanography.
Bowditch was engaged in surveying at Tacloban shortly after typhoon Haiyan in advance of the Navy's Operation Damayan in an area known for its shifting hazards to navigation using its multi-beam contour mapping system.[1]
References
- ↑ http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=77698|USNS Bowditch Clears the Way
- 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.
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