Country: USA.
Class, [Type]: Artemis, [AGS].

Callsign: NCBB (     )

Builder: Walsh-Kaiser Company, Rhode Island, USA.
Laid down date: 21 November 1944.
Launch date: 31 January 1945.
Commission date: 28 February 1945.
Decommission date: 19 December 1969.

Displacement ( tons ): 7080 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 130 x 18 x 5.
Main machinery: 2 x Westinghouse turbo-electric engines ( 6000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 17.
Complement: 303 ( 27 officers ).

Guns: 1 x 1 127mm, 4 x 2 40mm, 10 x 1 20mm.

Comment: Artemis Class Attack Cargo Ship: Commissioned USS Renate ( AKA-36 ). Reclassified Survey Ship and renamed USS Maury ( AGS-16 ), 12 July 1946. Maury thus became the first U.S. Naval Unit to enter the Black Sea since 1945.

Year of visit the Black Sea:  1959