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Active in service as of 2007. |
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4,762 long tons |
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329 feet |
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58 feet |
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19 feet |
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16.0 knots |
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26 mariners/27 sponsor personnel |
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USNS Bowditch (T-AGS 62) is a Pathfinder class oceanographic survey ship. It is the third ship in the class. She is named after Nathaniel Bowditch, generally regarded as the founding father of mordern navigation and oceanogrophy.
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