USNS ''Persistent'' (T-AGOS-6) was a
''Stalwart''-class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General
Ocean Surveillance Ship of the
United States Navy.
Stalwart-class ships were originally designed to collect underwater
acoustical data
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in support of
Cold War
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anti-submarine warfare operations in the 1980s. Ex-USNS ''Persistent'' is now T/S ''State of Michigan'', owned by the
U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration and assigned to the
Great Lakes Maritime Academy,
Traverse City, Michigan.
T/S State of Michigan, Great Lakes Maritime Academy
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Design
The ''Stalwart''-class ocean surveillance ships were succeeded by the longer ''Victorious''-class ocean surveillance ships. ''Persistent'' had an overall length of and a length of at its waterline. It had a beam of and a draft 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 General Electric 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.
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Stalwart-class ocean surveillance ships
Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States
Training ships of the United States
Ships built by Tacoma Boatbuilding Company
1985 ships