USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3)

USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3)
USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3).jpg
An aerial starboard bow view of Vindicator, 1985.
Career (MSC)
Name: USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3)
Operator: Military Sealift Command
Ordered: September 26, 1980
Builder: Tacoma Boatbuilding, Tacoma, Washington
Laid down: April 14, 1983
Launched: June 1, 1984
Acquired: November 21, 1984
Fate: Disposed of by transfer to the U.S. Coast Guard as USCGC Vindicator (WMEC-3)
Career (USCG)
Name: USCGC Vindicator (WMEC-3)
Owner: Military Sealift Command
Operator: United States Coast Guard
In service: 1993
Out of service: 2001
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia
Status: Returned to Military Sealift Command, transferred to NOAA
Career (NOAA)
Name: Hi'Ialakai (R-334)
Operator: NOAA
Builder: Converted for $4 million
Acquired: October 2001
In service: September 3, 2004
Homeport: Honolulu, Hawaii
Status: Active NOAA fleet
General characteristics
Displacement: 2,250 tons
Length: 224 ft (68 m)
Beam: 43 ft (13 m)
Draft: 16.0 ft (4.9 m)
Speed: 11 kt cruise
Crew: 36

NOAAS Hi'ialakai (R-334) is a research vessel for the NOAA, but was originally commissioned as USS Vindicator, as a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship for 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.

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History

US Navy

Vindicator was ordered September 26, 1980 as a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship. She was laid down April 14, 1983 at Tacoma Boatbuilding, Tacoma, Washington and launched June 1, 1984. Acquired by the Military Sealift Command November 21, 1984 and used by the United States Navy for underwater surveillance until she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register June 30, 1993.[1]

US Coast Guard

The ship was transferred to the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Vindicator (WMEC-3) for counter narcotics operations. Based out of Norfolk, she served as a "mother ship" for 38-foot pursuit boats used to intercept drug smugglers. Budget cuts in early 2001 resulted in termination of the lease and return to the Military Sealift Command.[2][3] At one point, Vindicator was under evaluation to be a test ship for a Marine Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Demonstration Module.[4]

NOAA

Ex-Vindicator is now NOAA R/V Hi'ialakai (R-334), Hawaiian for "embracing pathways to the sea".[5] Hi'ialakai conducts coral reef mapping and health studies as well as bio-analysis assessments and fish stock studies. Dive operations are required for the research and the ship carries up to six work boats and a three person, double-lock decompression chamber for that purpose.[6]

References

  1. ^ Naval Vessel Register.
  2. ^ Coast Guard Prepares To Initiate Deep Cuts Top Officer Says "Short-Term Pain" Will Help Service Embark On Proposed $9 Billion Acquisition Project. Jack Dorsey The Virginian - Pilot. Virginian - Pilot. Norfolk, Va.: April 24, 2001. pg. A.1
  3. ^ Military Sealift Command. 2000 Annual Report.
  4. ^ Maritime Administration. Report on Port And Shipping Safety and Environmental Protection. Chapter 4. April 2000.
  5. ^ NOAA. NOAA Ship Hi’Ialakai Commissioned In Honolulu. September 3, 2004.
  6. ^ NOAA. Hi'Ialakai (R-334).

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