USS Vigil (AGR-12)
USS Vigil (AGR-12/YAGR-12) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1956 from the "mothballed" reserve fleet. She was reconfigured as a radar picket ship and assigned to radar picket duty in the North Atlantic Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line.
Read more about USS Vigil (AGR-12): Liberty Ship Built in Florida, World War II Services, Conversion To Radar Picket, Decommissioning, Honors and Awards
Famous quotes containing the word vigil:
“He that shall see this day and live old age
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors
And say, “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.””
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)