USS Picket (YAGR-7)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Picket.
USS Picket (YAGR/AGR-7) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship, converted from a Liberty Ship, acquired by the US Navy in 1955. She was obtained from the National Defense Reserve Fleet and 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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USS Picket (AGR-7), in 1956 | |
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Name | James F. Harrell |
Namesake | James F. Harrell |
Owner | War Shipping Administration (WSA) |
Operator | Alcoa Steamship Co.Inc. |
Ordered | as type (EC2-S-C5) hull, MC hull 3138 |
Builder | J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida[1] |
Cost | $823,358[2] |
Yard number | 98 |
Way number | 3 |
Laid down | 28 March 1945 |
Launched | 17 May 1945 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Alice Harrell |
Completed | 11 June 1945 |
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Name | Picket |
Namesake | A sentinel |
Commissioned | 8 February 1956 |
Decommissioned | 30 July 1965 |
Reclassified | Guardian-class radar picket ship |
Refit | Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia |
Stricken | 1 September 1965 |
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Beam | 57 feet (17 m) |
Draft | 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m) |
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Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
Capacity | 490,000 cubic feet (13,875 m3) (bale) |
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Class and type | Guardian-class radar picket ship |
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Armament | 2 × 3 inches (76 mm)/50 caliber guns |
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