USS Scanner
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USS Scanner (AGR/YAGR-5) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship, converted from a liberty ship, acquired by the United States Navy in 1955. She was obtained from the National Defense Reserve Fleet and 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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The U.S. Navy radar picket ship USS Scanner (AGR-5), c. 1965. Scanner was decommissioned on 21 July 1965. | |
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Name | Edwin D. Howard |
Namesake | Edwin D. Howard |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Alcoa Steamship Co. Inc. |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C5) hull, MC hull 2344 |
Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida[1] |
Cost | $1,004,408[2] |
Yard number | 85 |
Way number | 1 |
Laid down | 24 January 1945 |
Launched | 27 February 1945 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. J. E. Davidson |
Completed | 14 March 1945 |
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Name | Scanner |
Namesake | One who examines and searches an area by regular sweeps |
Commissioned | 30 January 1956 |
Decommissioned | 21 July 1965 |
Reclassified | Guardian-class radar picket ship |
Refit | Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, Virginia |
Stricken | 1 September 1965 |
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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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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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