NRP Dom Carlos I (A522)

History
United States
Name: USNS Audacious (T-AGOS-11)
Awarded: 30 September 1987
Builder: Tacoma Boatbuilding Company
Laid down: 29 February 1988
Launched: 28 January 1989
In service: 12 June 1989
Out of service: 9 December 1996
Struck: 6 February 1997
Fate: Transferred to Portugal
Portugal
Name: NRP Dom Carlos I (A522)
Namesake: King Charles I of Portugal
Acquired: February 1997
Commissioned: 1997
In service: 1997
Status: In service as a survey ship
General characteristics
Class & type: Stalwart-class Ocean Surveillance Ship
Displacement: 1565 tons (light) 2535 tons (full)
Length: 224 ft (68 m)
Complement: 30

NRP Dom Carlos I (A522) is the lead ship of the Portuguese Navy' Dom Carlos I-class survey vessels (ex-US Stalwart-class surveillance ships adapted in Portugal for the execution of hydrography and oceanography surveys). Before the transference to the Portuguese Navy, Dom Carlos I was the USNS Audacious (T-AGOS-11) surveillance ship of the United States Navy.

History

USNS Audacious 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 in support of Cold war anti-submarine warfare operations in the 1980s.

ex-USNS Audacious was transferred to the Portuguese Navy in 1996 and renamed Dom Carlos I in honor to Carlos I, King of Portugal and a pioneer scientist in the oceanography field.[1] The refitting of the Audacious for transfer to Portugal was completed at Detyens Shipyard on the site of the former Charleston Naval Base in North Charleston, South Carolina.

In Portugal, Almirante Gago Coutinho underwent adaptation works towards its transformation into a hydro-oceanographic ship, in the Alfeite Naval Arsenal. The first phase of the transformation was carried out in 2001 and the second phase in 2004.

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