USS Jamestown (AGTR-3)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Jamestown.
USS Jamestown (AGTR-3/AG-166) was an Oxford-class technical research ship (a Cold War spy ship) acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of "conducting research in the reception of electromagnetic propagations" (SIGINT).
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Ordered |
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Builder | New England Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 4 May 1945 |
Launched | 10 July 1945 |
Acquired | 10 August 1962 |
Commissioned | 13 December 1962 |
Decommissioned | 19 December 1969 |
Stricken | 14 January 1970 |
Homeport | Norfolk, Virginia |
Motto | "In Relquum Tempus" |
Fate | Scrapped, May 1970 |
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Displacement | 11,365 (f.) |
Length | 441 ft (134 m) |
Beam | 59 ft (18 m) |
Draught | 22 ft (6.7 m) |
Speed | 11 knots |
Complement | 313 |
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