USS Interceptor
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USS Interceptor (AGR-8/YAGR-8) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship acquired by the US Navy in 1955, from the "mothballed" reserve fleet. She was reconfigured as a radar picket ship and assigned to radar picket duty in the North Pacific Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line.
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USS Interceptor (YAGR-8), ex-Edward W. Burton, moored pierside at Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, S.C., c. 1955-56. | |
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United States | |
Name | Edward W. Burton |
Namesake | Edward W. Burton |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | R.A.Nichol & Co.Inc. |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C5) hull, MC hull 3147 |
Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida[1] |
Cost | $850.797[2] |
Yard number | 107 |
Way number | 4 |
Laid down | 10 July 1945 |
Launched | 12 September 1945 |
Sponsored by | Miss Juanita M. Kaylor |
Completed | 28 September 1945 |
Identification | |
Fate | Acquired by US Navy, 28 June 1955 |
United States | |
Name | Interceptor |
Namesake | One who intercepts |
Commissioned | 15 February 1956 |
Decommissioned | 5 July 1965 |
Reclassified | Guardian-class radar picket ship |
Refit | Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina |
Stricken | 1 September 1965 |
Homeport | San Francisco, California |
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Fate | Scrapped, 16 February 1978 |
General characteristics [3] | |
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Length | |
Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
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Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
Capacity | 490,000 cubic feet (13,875 m3) (bale) |
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General characteristics (US Navy refit)[4] | |
Class and type | Guardian-class radar picket ship |
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Armament | 2 × 3 inches (76 mm)/50 caliber guns |
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