RFA Tarbatness
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RFA Tarbatness (A345)
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History | |
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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 |
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.[1]
In 1981, the ship was bought by the United States Military Sealift Command to serve as USNS Spica (T-AFS-9).[1]
References
- ^ a b "RFA Tarbatness". Historical RFA. 15 October 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2024.