USS Interpreter (AGR-14), underway, date and location unknown.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Dudley H.Thomas |
Namesake | Dudley H. Thomas |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Merchants & Miners Transportation Company |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C5) hull, MC hull 2341 |
Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida[1] |
Cost | $1,036,875[2] |
Yard number | 82 |
Way number | 3 |
Laid down | 5 January 1945 |
Launched | 8 February 1945 |
Sponsored by | Miss Carriek Cobitt |
Completed | 21 February 1945 |
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United States | |
Name | Interpreter |
Namesake | One who explains, translates, or tells the meaning of |
Commissioned | 29 September 1958 |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1965 |
Reclassified | Guardian-class radar picket ship |
Refit | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Stricken | 1 July 1965 |
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General characteristics [4] | |
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Displacement | |
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)[3] | |
Class and type | Guardian-class radar picket ship |
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Armament | 2 × 3 inches (76 mm)/50 caliber guns |
USS Interpreter (AGR-14) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship, converted from a Liberty Ship, acquired by the US Navy in 1957. She was reconfigured as a radar picket ship and assigned to radar picket duty in the North Pacific Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line.