Country: USA.
Class, [Type]: Silas Bent, [AGS].
Builder: Christy Corp., Sturgeon Bay, USA.

Launch date: 20 November 1965.
Commission date: 19 May 1967.
Decommission date: 2001.

Displacement ( tons ): 2550 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 87 x 14,5 x 4,6.
Main machinery: 1 x Westinghouse diesel engines ( 3600 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 15.
Range ( miles ): 10000 at 12 knots.
Complement: 44 ( 26 scientists ).

Comment: Transferred to the Navy of Turkey, 2001.

Year of visit the Black Sea:  1992