- USNS Relentless (T-AGOS-18)
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NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter ex-RelentlessCareer (USA) Name: USNS Relentless (T-AGOS-18) Owner: United States Navy Operator: Military Sealift Command Awarded: 20 February 1987 Builder: Halter Marine Laid down: 22 April 1988 Launched: 12 May 1989 In service: 12 January 1990 Out of service: 17 March 1993 Struck: 20 May 1993 Fate: Transferred to NOAA General characteristics Class and type: Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship Displacement: 1,565 tons (light) 2,535 tons (full) Length: 224 ft (68 m) Beam: 43 ft (13 m) Draft: 15 ft (4.6 m) Speed: 11 knots Complement: 33 USNS Relentless (T-AGOS-18) 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 Relentless is now National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research vessel NOAAS Gordon Gunter (R 336).[1].
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Categories:- Stalwart class ocean surveillance ships
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- Ships built in Mississippi
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