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USS Protector (AGR-11)

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USS Protector AGR-11 underway 12 October 1960
USS Protector (AGR-11), underway, 12 October 1960, place unknown.
Career (United States)
Name: Warren P. Marks
Namesake: Warren P. Marks
Owner: War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator: Shepard Steamship Company
Ordered: as type (EC2-S-C5) hull, MC hull 2346
Builder: J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida[1]
Cost: $1,006,824[2]
Yard number: 87
Way number: 5
Laid down: 31 January 1945
Launched: 15 March 1945
Sponsored by: Mrs. E. M. Hinson
Completed: 29 March 1945
Identification:
Fate: Acquired by US Navy, 1957
Career (United States)
Name: Protector
Namesake: A guard or guardian
Commissioned: 20 February 1957
Decommissioned: 28 July 1965
Reclassified: Guardian-class radar picket ship
Refit: Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina
Identification:
  • Hull symbol: YAGR-11 (1957–1958)
  • Hull symbol: AGR-11 (1958–1965)
  • IMO number: 8628341
Fate:
  • Placed in National Defense Reserve Fleet, Hudson River Reserve Fleet, Jones Point, New York, 1 April 1965
    • *Sold for scrapping, 30 November 2005
    General characteristics [3]
    Class & type:
    Tonnage:
  • 10,600 LT DWT
  • 7,200 GRT
    • Displacement:
  • 3,380 long tons (3,434 t) (light)
  • 14,245 long tons (14,474 t) (max)
    • Length: 441 ft 6 in (135 m)
    Beam: 56 ft 10.75 in (17.3419 m)
    Draft: 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m)
    Installed power:
    • 2 × Oil fired 450 °F (232 °C) boilers, operating at 220 psi (1,500 kPa)
    • 2,500 hp (1,900 kW)
    Propulsion:
  • 2 × oil-fired boilers
  • 1 × triple-expansion steam engine, 2,500 horsepower (1,900 kW) (manufactured by Hamilton Engine Co., Hamilton, Ohio)
  • 1 × screw propeller
    • Speed: 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h)
    Capacity:
    • 490,000 cubic feet (13,875 m3) (bale)
    Complement: 41
    Armament:
    • Stern-mounted 4"/50 caliber (102 mm) gun for use against surfaced submarines
    • variety of anti-aircraft guns
    General characteristics (US Navy refit)[4]
    Class & type: Guardian-class radar picket ship
    Capacity:
    • 443,646 US gallons (1,679,383 l; 369,413 imp gal) (fuel oil)
    • 68,267 US gallons (258,419 l; 56,844 imp gal) (diesel)
    • 15,082 US gallons (57,092 l; 12,558 imp gal) (fresh water)
    • 1,326,657 US gallons (5,021,943 l; 1,104,673 imp gal) (fresh water ballast)
    Complement:
  • 13 officers
  • 138 enlisted
    • Armament: 2 × 3 inches (76 mm)/50 caliber guns

    USS Protector (AGR/YAGR-11) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship of the United States Navy. A Liberty Ship acquired in 1957, 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.

    Construction[]

    The third ship to be so named by the Navy, Protector (YAGR–11) was laid down on 31 January 1945, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2346, as the Liberty Ship Warren P. Marks, by J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida. She was launched 15 March 1945; sponsored by Mrs. E. M. Hinson; and delivered 29 March 1945, to the Shepard Steamship Company.[5][4]

    Service history[]

    Operated by the Shepard Steamship Co., from 1945 to 1957, Warren P. Marks was converted Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina, and commissioned Protector (YAGR–11), 20 February 1957.[5][4]

    After shakedown off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Protector, homeported at Davisville, Rhode Island, reported to Commandant, 1st Naval District for administrative control and to Commander YAGR Division 21 for duty and was assigned as an Ocean Station Radar Picket Ship in the seaward extension of the Eastern Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD)'s Contiguous Radar Coverage System.[5]

    Continuing her duties off the US East Coast, Protector was redesignated AGR-11 on 28 October 1958. She continued her radar picket duty until 1965. During the Cuban invasion in the spring of 1962, and the Cuban Missile Crisis in the fall, Protector operated in the Florida Straits and established a new radar picket station.[5]

    On 10 February 1965, Protector terminated picket duty as the last picket ship to man Radar Picket Station No. 15 of NORAD Contiguous Radar Coverage System.[5]

    Decommissioning[]

    On 28 July 1965, she decommissioned at Bayonne, New Jersey, and was placed in the US Maritime Administration (MARAD) National Defense Reserve Fleet, Hudson River Reserve Fleet, Jones Point, New York, as an Emergency Relocation Center Ship, where she remained until she was towed to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard where her engine was removed. She was then placed for sale as scrap, with scrapping completed 30 November 2005.[5][4]

    Military awards and honors[]

    Protector's crew was eligible for the following medals:

    [4]

    See also[]

    References[]

    1. ↑ J.A. Panama City 2010.
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 MARCOM.
    3. ↑ Davies 2004, p. 23.
    4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Navsource 2019.
    5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 DANFS.

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