- USNS Audacious (T-AGOS-11)
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Career (USA) Name: USNS Audacious (T-AGOS-11) Awarded: 30 September 1987 Builder: Tacoma Boatbuilding Company Laid down: 29 February 1988 Launched: 28 January 1989 In service: 12 June 1989 Out of service: 9 December 1996 Struck: 6 February 1997 Fate: Transferred to Portugal General characteristics Class and type: Stalwart-class Ocean Surveillance Ship Displacement: 1565 tons (light) 2535 tons (full) Length: 224 ft (68 m) Complement: 30 USNS Audacious (T-AGOS-11) 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 Audacious was transferred to Portugal and re-named Dom Carlos (A522) [1].
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Categories:- Stalwart class ocean surveillance ships
- Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States
- Ships built in Washington (state)
- 1989 ships
- United States Navy ships transferred to the Portuguese Navy
- United States naval ship stubs
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