USNS Hayes (T-AGOR-16)

History
United States
Name	Hayes
Builder	Todd Shipyards, Corp., Seattle, Washington
Laid down	12 November 1969
Launched	2 July 1970
Acquired	by the Navy, 21 July 1971
Commissioned	21 July 1971 as USNS Hayes (T-AGOR-16)
Decommissioned	circa 10 June 1983
In service	1992 as USNS Hayes (T-AG-195)
Reclassified	as an Acoustic Research Ship
Refit	at Tacoma Boatbuilding in Tacoma, Washington. Received in Tacoma Boat in 1988, refit as submarine surveillance vessel. Refit was 95% complete in December 1990, when the vessel was removed from Tacoma Boatbuilding and completed at Naval Shipyard Bremerton, Washington. The USNS Hayes was completed and delivered to the U.S. Navy in June 1992.
Identification	IMO number: 7738589 MMSI number: 303820000 Callsign: NRLW
Fate	struck from the naval register in 2008
Status	Laid up at NAVSEA Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA.
General characteristics
Type	Hayes-class oceanographic research ship
Displacement	2,329 tons light 4,521 tons full load
Length	74.9m (246 ft)
Beam	22.8m (75 ft)
Draft	6.7m (22 ft)
Propulsion	diesel-electric, two Caterpillar diesel engines, 3,620hp, two generators, two Westinghouse electric motors, 2,400hp; two auxiliary diesel (for creep speed) 330hp, two propellers
Speed	17 knots
Complement	26 civilian mariners, 30 scientific party
Armament	none

USNS Hayes (T-AGOR-16/T-AG-195) was a Hayes-class oceanographic research ship acquired by the United States Navy in 1971. In 1992 she was reconfigured as an acoustics research ship and assigned to the Navy's program of acoustic noise reduction for submarines.