USS Interdictor (AGR-13)
| Career (USA) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Interdictor |
| Namesake: | One who prohibits |
| Ordered: | as type (Z-EC2-S-C5) hull, MCE hull 3142 |
| Builder: | J. A. Jones Construction Co. Inc., Panama City, Florida |
| Laid down: | 18 May 1945, as Liberty ship SS Edwin H. Duff |
| Launched: | 29 June 1945 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Edwin H. Duff |
| Completed: | 27 July 1945 |
| Acquired: | by the U.S. Navy, 5 June 1957 |
| Commissioned: | 7 April 1958 as USS Interdictor (YAGR-13) at Charleston Naval Shipyard |
| Decommissioned: | 5 August 1965 |
| Reclassified: | AGR-13, 28 September 1958 |
| Refit: | Converted to a Radar Picket Ship at Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina |
| Struck: | 1 September 1965 |
| Homeport: | San Francisco, California |
| Honors and awards: |
National Defense Service Medal |
| Fate: | sold 13 June 1974 for non-maritime use |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Guardian-class radar picket ship |
| Tons burthen: | 11,365 tons |
| Length: | 441' |
| Beam: | 59' |
| Draft: | 22' |
| Installed power: | two electric generators |
| Propulsion: | Two 220 PSI boilers; Filer & Stowell Co., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, three cylinder triple-expansion reciprocating engine; Single 4 blade, 18' 6" propeller; Shaft Horsepower, 2,500 |
| Speed: | 11 knots |
| Capacity: | Fuel Oil, 443,646 gals; Diesel, 68,267 gals; Fresh Water, 15,082 gals; Ballast, 1,326,657 gals fresh water |
| Complement: | 13 officers, 138 enlisted |
| Armament: | two 3"/50 guns |
USS Interdictor (AGR-13/YAGR-13) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1957 from the “mothballed” reserve fleet. 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.
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