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USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS-65)

Pathfinder Class Hydrographic Survey Ship:
  • Laid down, 28 July 1999, at Halter Marine Inc., Moss Point, MS.
  • Launched, 19 October 2000
  • Delivered to the Navy, 17 December 2001
  • Placed in service with the Military Sealift Command (MSC) as USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS-65)
  • USNS Mary Sears is one of the seven survey ships of MSC's Special Mission Ships Program
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,981 t.(lt) 4,260 t.(fl)
    Length 329'
    Beam 58'
    Draft 18
    Speed 16 kts
    Complement 28 civilian mariners, 27 scientific party
    Propulsion four EMD Diesels (diesel-electric drive), 8,520kw, twin shafts
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    Mary Sears 84k USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS-65) underway, date and place unknown. MSC
    Mary Sears 60k USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS-65) moored at Singapore, 29 January 2007, after a successful mission to search for and locate missing Adam Air Flight KI 574, which disappeared off the coast of West Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1 January 2007. During the mission a search team aboard Mary Sears located pingers from Flight KI 574 and mapped the aircraft’s debris field at a depth between 1500 and 1900 meters.
    US Navy # 070129-N-5747D-001 by MC2 Devin Dorney.    		 Lee Wahler
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