USS Protector (AGR-11), underway, 12 October 1960, place unknown.
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United States | |
Name | Warren P. Marks |
Namesake | Warren P. Marks |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Shepard Steamship Company |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C5) hull, MC hull 2346 |
Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida[2] |
Cost | $1,006,824[1] |
Yard number | 87 |
Way number | 5 |
Laid down | 31 January 1945 |
Launched | 15 March 1945 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. E. M. Hinson |
Completed | 29 March 1945 |
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Fate | Acquired by US Navy, 1957 |
United States | |
Name | Protector |
Namesake | A guard or guardian |
Commissioned | 20 February 1957 |
Decommissioned | 28 July 1965 |
Reclassified | Guardian-class radar picket ship |
Refit | Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina |
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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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Propulsion |
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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 |
USS Protector (AGR/YAGR-11) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship of the United States Navy. A Liberty Ship acquired in 1957, she was reconfigured as a radar picket ship and assigned to radar picket duty in the North Atlantic Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line.