| Perm ID | Sage ID | JSS ID | Unit | Location | Early Equip. |
Final Equip. |
Oper. Date |
Inact. Date |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT-4 | TT-4 | 646; 4604 | Texas Tower No. 4 (Unnamed Shoal) | FPS-20A; FPS-6A (2) | Apr-59 | 15-Jan-61 | Operational as a SAGE unit in Apr 1960. Parent station was Highlands AFS, NJ (P-9). Plans for an AN/FPS-27 FD search radar were cancelled. Plans for an AN/FPS-26 FD height-finder radar were cancelled. Tower collapsed in storm; 28 people died. 185-foot depth, 84 miles southeast of New York City. In the nautical chart (located under "Aerial Images"), water depths are in fathoms. |
Current Use: Wreckage still lies on the ocean floor, visited often by undersea divers.
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