USS Watchman
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USS Watchman (AGR-16) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship, converted from a Liberty Ship, acquired by the US Navy in 1958. 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 Watchman (AGR-16) entering San Francisco Bay | |
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Name | Vernon S. Hood |
Namesake | Vernon S. Hood |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Overlakes Freight Co. |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C5) hull, MC hull 2343 |
Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida[1] |
Cost | $1,061,814[2] |
Yard number | 84 |
Way number | 6 |
Laid down | 17 January 1945 |
Launched | 20 February 1945 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Inez Bulifant |
Completed | 7 March 1945 |
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Name | Watchman |
Namesake | One who watches |
Commissioned | 5 January 1959 |
Decommissioned | 7 July 1965 |
Reclassified | Guardian-class radar picket ship |
Refit | Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina |
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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General characteristics (US Navy refit)[3] | |
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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