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USNS Indomitable (T-AGOS-7)
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USNS Indomitable (T-AGOS-7) was a United States Navy
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
Stalwart class
Stalwart class ocean surveillance ship
Stalwart class auxiliary general ocean surveillance ships were a class of United States Naval Ship auxiliary support Ocean Surveillance Ships commissioned between April 1984 and January 1990...
ocean surveillance ship in service from 1985 to 2002.
History
Indomitable was laid down by the Tacoma Boatbuilding CompanyTacoma Boatbuilding Company
Tacoma Boatbuilding Company was a corporation established in 1926, built many boats during World War II. Some of the boats constructed include: USCGC Harriet Lane, USNS Audacious, USNS Indomitable, USS Ready and others....
at Tacoma
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...
, Washington on 26 January 1985 and launched
Ship naming and launching
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on 16 July 1985. She was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 26 November 1985. She was placed in non-commissioned
Ship commissioning
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service in the U.S. Navys Military Sealift Command
Military Sealift Command
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as a United States Naval Ship
United States Naval Ship
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with a mixed Navy and civilian
Civilian
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crew on 1 December 1985.
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Cold War
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anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare is a branch of naval warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, or other submarines to find, track and deter, damage or destroy enemy submarines....
operations in the 1980s. Accordingly, Indomitable employed Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System
Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System
The AN/UQQ-2 Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System is a towed array sonar system of the United States Navy.SURTASS began as development program in 1973 using the new research vessel Moana Wave. In 1980 SURTASS passed OPEVAL...
(SURTASS) equipment on Cold War underwater surveillance duties.
After the end of the Cold War in 1991, requirements for such surveillance declined. By 1998, Indomitables SURTASS gear had been removed, and she had received an AN/SPS-49
AN/SPS-49
The AN/SPS-49 is a United States Navy two-dimensional, long range air search radar built by Raytheon that can provide contact bearing and range. It is a primary air-search radar for numerous ships in the U.S...
radar
Radar
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for use in counternarcotics
War on Drugs
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surveillance.
Indomitable was retired from service on 2 December 2002 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register
Naval Vessel Register
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the same day. On 9 December 2002, she was transferred to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , pronounced , like "noah", is a scientific agency within the United States Department of Commerce focused on the conditions of the oceans and the atmosphere...
(NOAA).
Later career
NOAA converted Indomitable into an oceanographicOceanography
Oceanography , also called oceanology or marine science, is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean...
research ship. Renamed NOAAS McArthur II (R 330)
NOAAS McArthur II (R 330)
NOAAS McArthur II is an oceanographic research ship in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration service since 2003.-Construction, acquisition, and commissioning:...
, she entered service in the NOAA fleet in May 2003. McArthur II is an active member of the NOAA Pacific Fleet.
External links
- NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive T-AGOS-7 Indomitable NOAA MacArthur II (R-330)
- NOAA Marine Operations NOAA Ship McArthur II