USS Jamestown (AGTR-3)

History
United States
Name	J. Howland Gardner Jamestown
Namesake	J. Howland Gardner Jamestown, Virginia, is the earliest permanent settlement established by Englishmen in North America
Ordered	as J. Howland Gardner Z–EC2–S–C5 MCE–3126
Builder	New England Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down	4 May 1945
Launched	10 July 1945
Acquired	10 August 1962
Commissioned	13 December 1962
Decommissioned	19 December 1969
Stricken	14 January 1970
Homeport	Norfolk, Virginia
Motto	"In Relquum Tempus"
Fate	Scrapped, May 1970
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General characteristics
Displacement	11,365 (f.)
Length	441 ft (134 m)
Beam	59 ft (18 m)
Draught	22 ft (6.7 m)
Speed	11 knots
Complement	313

USS Jamestown (AGTR-3/AG-166) was an Oxford-class technical research ship (a Cold War spy ship) acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of "conducting research in the reception of electromagnetic propagations" (SIGINT).