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| Career |
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| Ordered: |
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| Laid down: |
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| Launched: |
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| Commissioned: |
1999 |
| Status: |
Active in service as of 2007. |
| Homeport: |
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| General Characteristics |
| Displacement: |
5,000 long tons |
| Length: |
329 feet |
| Beam: |
58 feet |
| Draft: |
19 feet |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: |
16.0 knots |
| Range: |
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| Complement: |
26 mariners/27 sponsor personnel |
| Motto: |
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USNS Bruce C. Heezen (T-AGS 64) is a Pathfinder class oceanographic survey ship. It is the fifth ship in the class. She is named after Bruce C. Heezen, who the leader of the team from Columbia University that discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the 1950s.
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