USNS Wheeling
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| United States | |
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| Builder | Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, Portland, Oregon |
| Laid down | 10 April 1945, as Seton Hall Victory, type (VC2-S-AP3), hull, MCV hull 686 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Ross Mclntyre |
| Acquired | by the Navy in 1962 |
| In service | 28 May 1964 as USNS Wheeling (T-AGM-8) |
| Out of service | date unknown |
| Stricken | 31 October 1990 |
| Fate | Assumed sunk from a 1981 Harpoon missile exercise attack |
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| Displacement | 15,200 long tons (15,444 t) (standard) |
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| Beam | 62 feet (19 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
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USNS Wheeling (T-AGM-8) was a Wheeling-class missile range instrumentation ship acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1962 and converted from her Victory ship cargo configuration to a missile tracking ship, a role she retained for a number of years before being sunk as a target by Harpoon missiles on 12 July 1981.