USNS Watertown
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USNS Watertown (T-AGM-6) was a Watertown-class missile range instrumentation ship acquired by the United States Navy in 1960 and converted from her SS Niantic Victory Victory ship cargo configuration to a missile tracking ship, a role she retained for eleven years before being placed out of service in 1971.
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Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, SS Niantic Victory with her sister ships 1944 | |
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United States | |
Name | Niantic Victory |
Namesake | Niantic, Connecticut |
Owner | War Shipping Administration |
Operator | American-Hawaiian Steamship Company |
Ordered | as type (VC2-S-AP3) hull, MCV hull 100 |
Builder | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Portland, Oregon |
Laid down | 12 February 1944 |
Launched | 25 April 1944 |
Completed | 18 May 1944 |
Out of service | 1948, Laid up Wilmington, then transferred to Suisun Bay. |
Fate | Transferred to US Navy in 1960 |
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Name | Watertown |
Namesake | Cities and towns in the states of Watertown, Massachusetts, Watertown, New York, Watertown, South Dakota, Watertown, Wisconsin, and Watertown, Connecticut |
Acquired | by the Navy in 1960 |
In service | 11 August 1960 as USNS Watertown (T-AGM-6) |
Out of service | 1971 |
Stricken | 16 February 1971 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 23 May 1974 |
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Displacement | 15,200 long tons (15,444 t) (standard) |
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Beam | 62 feet (19 m) |
Draft | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
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Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
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