 Sister ship USAPRS Thomas F. Farrel, Jr. underway off the East Coast of the United States, 26 August 1944. US National Archives photo # 80-G-420158 RG-80-G, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Ordered |
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| Laid down | 24 January 1944 |
| Launched | 9 July 1944 |
| Acquired | 18 July 1944 |
| Out of service | 1959 |
| Stricken | date unknown |
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| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1,677 t.(lt), 5,202 t.(fl) |
| Length | 269 ft 10 in (82.25 m) |
| Beam | 42 ft 6 in (12.95 m) |
| Draught | 20 ft 9 in (6.32 m) |
| Propulsion | Diesel, single shaft, 1,300shp |
| Speed | 10 kts. |
| Notes | The ship was under Navy supervision during construction, transferred to Army upon delivery to Navy and underwent extensive modifications for operation by the Corps of Engineers as a port repair ship. Subsequent Naval service was as unarmed, civilian crewed USNS Sagitta (T-AK-87). |
Sagitta (AK-87)[Note 1] was never commissioned and thus never bore the USS designation.[1]
The ship, contracted as the United States Maritime Commission MV Moses Pike, transferred to Navy supervision for construction and was then transferred shortly after launch as Sagitta (AK-87) to the Army to become the Engineer Port Repair Ship Marvin Lyle Thomas. She was one of two such repair ships transferred to Navy in 1952 and served as the civilian crewed, unarmed USNS Sagitta (T-AK-87). The ship may have been unique among her type in being then transferred back to the Army in 1966.
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