RFA Tarbatness (A345)

RFA Tarbatness (A345)
History
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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