Glomar Explorer
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | GSF Explorer |
| Owner | Global Marine Development |
| Operator | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Port of registry | Port Vila, Vanuatu |
| Builder | |
| Cost | >$350 million (1974) (>$1.68 billion in 2023 dollars.) |
| Laid down | 1971 |
| Launched | 4 November 1972 |
| Completed | 1974 |
| Acquired | 2010 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped |
| Notes | |
| United States | |
| Name | Hughes Glomar Explorer |
| Namesake | Howard Hughes |
| Builder | Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company |
| Launched | 4 November 1972 |
| In service | 1 July 1973 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 2015 |
| Notes | |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Drillship |
| Displacement | 50,500 long tons (51,310 t) light |
| Length | 619 ft (189 m) |
| Beam | 116 ft (35 m) |
| Draft | 38 ft (12 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 160 |
| Notes | |
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GSF Explorer, formerly USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer (T-AG-193), was a deep-sea drillship platform built for Project Azorian, the secret 1974 effort by the United States Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division to recover the Soviet submarine K-129.