USNS Vindicator
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Vindicator.
USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3) was a United States Navy Stalwart-class modified tactical auxiliary general ocean surveillance ship that was in service from 1984 to 1993. Vindicator then served in the United States Coast Guard from 1994 to 2001 as the medium endurance cutter USCGC Vindicator (WMEC-3). From 2004 to 2020, she was in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fleet as the oceanographic research ship NOAAS Hiʻialakai (R 334).
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United States | |
Name | USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3) |
Namesake | A vindicator is someone who justifies something by providing evidence or who maintains or defends a cause against opposition |
Operator | Military Sealift Command |
Ordered | 26 September 1980 |
Builder | Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Tacoma, Washington |
Laid down | 14 April 1983 |
Launched | 1 June 1984 |
Acquired | 21 November 1984 (delivered) |
In service | 21 November 1984 |
Out of service | 30 June 1993 |
Stricken | 30 June 1993 |
Identification | IMO number: 8835619 |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard 30 June 1993 |
Acquired | Transferred from U.S. Coast Guard 2001 |
Fate | Transferred to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration October 2001 |
United States | |
Name | USCGC Vindicator (WMEC-3) |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Acquired | By lease from U.S. Navy 30 June 1993 |
Commissioned | 20 May 1994 |
Decommissioned | 19 August 1994 |
Notes | In reserve 1994-1999 |
Recommissioned | 24 August 1999 |
Decommissioned | 1 May 2001 |
Homeport | Norfolk, Virginia |
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Fate | Returned to U.S. Navy 2001 |
United States | |
Name | NOAAS Hiʻialakai (R 334) |
Namesake | Hiʻialakai is a Hawaiian word meaning "embracing pathways to the sea" and holding a deeper meaning of "guiding leaders of the seas"[2] |
Acquired | Transferred from U.S. Navy October 2001 |
Commissioned | 3 September 2004 |
Decommissioned | 14 December 2020 |
Sponsored by | Margaret "Maggie" Awamura Inouye and Isabella A. Abbott |
Homeport | Pearl Harbor, Hawaiʻi |
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General characteristics (as U.S. Navy ocean surveillance ship) | |
Class and type | Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship |
Displacement | 2,285 long tons |
Length | 224 ft (68 m) |
Beam | 43 ft (13 m) |
Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) |
Propulsion | Diesel-electric: Two General Electric 800-hp (597-kw) diesel engines, twin fixed-pitch propellers |
Speed | 11 knots |
Crew | 33 (15 U.S. Navy personnel, 15 civilians) |
Armament | none |
General characteristics (as U.S. Coast Guard Cutter) | |
Type | Medium endurance cutter |
Length | 224 ft (68 m) |
Beam | 43 ft (13 m) |
Propulsion | Diesel-electric: Two General Electric 800-hp (597-kw) diesel engines, twin fixed-pitch propellers |
Speed | 11 kt cruise |
General characteristics (as NOAA oceanographic research ship) | |
Class and type | ex-U.S. Navy Stalwart-class oceanographic research ship |
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Length | 224 ft (68 m) |
Beam | 43 ft (13 m) |
Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) |
Depth | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Installed power | 1,600 horsepower (2.1 megawatts) |
Propulsion | Diesel-electric: Two General Electric 800-hp (597-kw) diesel engines, twin fixed-pitch propellers |
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Range | 20,232 nautical miles (37,470 km; 23,283 mi) |
Endurance | 35 days |
Boats & landing craft carried | Up to five small work boats |
Complement | 28 (6 NOAA Corps officers, 3 licensed engineers, and 19 other crew) plus up to 22 scientists |
Sensors and processing systems | Multibeam sonar; echosounder |
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