USNS Assurance (T-AGOS-5)

USNS Assurance (T-AGOS-5)

USNS "Assurance" (T-AGOS-5) 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. ex-USNS "Assurance" was transferred to Portugal and is now Almirante "Gago Coutinho" (A-533). [http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/europe/portugal.htm]

External links

* [http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/AGOS5.htm NVR]
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/6605.htm NavSource]


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