USNS ''Triumph'' (T-AGOS-4) is a formerly of the

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. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in 1995. On 1 October 2012 the ship was disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration. As of May 2015, ''Triumph'' was held as a reserve asset for spare parts for sister ships ''General Rudder'' and ''State of Michigan''. ''Stalwart'' class ships were originally designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of Cold War

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operations in the 1980s. In 1998, the

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authorized the sale of ''Triumph'', without the towed sonar array, to the Philippines for $11,370,000. However, the sale was not completed.

Design

The

Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ship ''Stalwart''-class auxiliary general ocean surveillance ships ( T-AGOS) were a class of United States Naval Ship (USNS) auxiliary support Ocean Surveillance Ships commissioned between April 1984 and January 1990. Their original purpose was to co ...

s were succeeded by the longer

Victorious-class ocean surveillance ship USNS ''Victorious'' (T-AGOS-19) is a ''Victorious''-class ocean surveillance ship which was acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1991 and assigned to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Special Missions Program. Built in Morgan City, Louisiana ''Victori ...

s. ''Triumph'' had an overall length of and a length of at its waterline. It had a beam of and a

draft Draft, The Draft, or Draught may refer to: Watercraft dimensions * Draft (hull), the distance from waterline to keel of a vessel * Draft (sail), degree of curvature in a sail * Air draft, distance from waterline to the highest point on a vesse ...

of . The surveillance ship had a displacement of at light load and at full load. It was powered by a diesel-electric system of four Caterpillar D-398 diesel-powered generators and two

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electric motors. This produced a total of that drove two shafts. It had a gross register tonnage of 1,584 and a deadweight tonnage of 786. The Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ships had maximum speeds of . They were built to be fitted with the

Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System The AN/UQQ-2 Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS), colloquially referred to as the ship's "Tail", is a towed array sonar system of the United States Navy. SURTASS Twin-Line consists of either the long passive SURTASS array or the Twi ...

(SURTASS) system. The ship had an endurance of thirty days. It had a range of and a speed of . Its complement was between thirty-two and forty-seven. Its hull design was similar to that of the ''Powhatan''-class tugboats.

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