USNS Impeccable
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History | |
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U.S. | |
Name | Impeccable |
Owner | United States Navy |
Operator | Military Sealift Command |
Builder | American Shipbuilding, Tampa, Florida |
Laid down | 15 March 1992 |
Completed | at Halter Marine Inc., Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1995 |
Launched | 28 August 1998 |
In service | 22 March 2001 |
Identification |
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Honors and awards | National Defense Service Medal |
Status | in active service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Impeccable-class ocean surveillance ship |
Displacement | 5,368 tons |
Length | 281 ft 5 in (85.78 m) |
Beam | 95 ft 8 in (29.16 m) |
Draft | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Propulsion | diesel-electric, two shafts, 5,000shp |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 25 civilian mariners, 25 military |
Sensors and processing systems | SURTASS passive and active low frequency sonar arrays |
USNS Impeccable (T-AGOS-23) is an Impeccable-class ocean surveillance ship acquired by the U.S. Navy in 2001 and assigned to Military Sealift Command's Special Missions Program.