RFA Tarbatness (A345)
RFA Tarbatness (A345) | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name: | RFA Tarbatness |
Ordered: | 7 December 1964 |
Builder: | Swan Hunter |
Yard number: | 2018 |
Laid down: | 15 April 1966 |
Launched: | 28 February 1967 |
Commissioned: | 10 August 1967 |
Decommissioned: | 1980 |
Fate: | Chartered by US MSC, later bought |
United States | |
Name: | USNS Spica |
Acquired: | 30 September 1981 |
Commissioned: | 1 November 1981 |
Decommissioned: | 26 January 2008 |
Renamed: | 5 November 1981 |
Fate: | Sunk as target in Training exercise Sinkex, 9 May 2009. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Ness-class combat stores ship |
Displacement: | 16,792 long tons (17,061 t) full load |
Length: | 523 ft 4 in (159.51 m) |
Beam: | 72 ft 3 in (22.02 m) |
Draft: | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) |
Propulsion: | 1 × 8-cylinder Sulzer diesel |
Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
Complement: | 110 RFA + 50 Stores Working Party |
Aviation facilities: | Fitted with a flight deck but no hangar facilities until purchased by USMSC |
RFA Tarbatness (A345) was a fleet stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
In 1981, the ship was bought by the United States Military Sealift Command to serve as USNS Spica (T-AFS-9).
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