USS Searcher (AGR-4) (original) (raw)

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• USS Searcher (YAGR/AGR-4) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship, converted from a Liberty Ship, acquired by the US Navy in 1954. 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 Atlantic Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line. (en)

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• *Acquired byUS Navy, 15 September 1954
• *Sold for scrapping, delivered, 31 May 1970
• *Placed in the,National Defense Reserve Fleet,Wilmington, North Carolina, 1 October 1947
• *Placed in the,James River Reserve Fleet,Lee Hall, Virginia, 29 October 1945
• *Placed inNational Defense Reserve Fleet,Hudson River Reserve Fleet,Jones Point, New York
• *Withdrawn from reserve fleet and leased toGrace Lines Inc., 4 February 1947

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• USS Searcher (YAGR/AGR-4) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship, converted from a Liberty Ship, acquired by the US Navy in 1954. 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 Atlantic Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line. (en)