USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201)
 USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201) | |
| Career (USA) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | USNS Patuxent |
| Namesake: | The Patuxent River in Maryland |
| Ordered: | 24 March 1989 |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyard, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Laid down: | 16 October 1991 |
| Launched: | 23 July 1994 |
| In service: | 21 June 1995-present |
| Status: | In active Military Sealift Command service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Henry J. Kaiser-class oiler |
| Type: | Fleet replenishment oiler |
| Tonnage: | 31,200 deadweight tons |
| Displacement: |
9,500 tons light 42,000 long tons (42,700 metric tons) full load |
| Length: | 677 ft (206 m) |
| Beam: | 97 ft 5 in (29.69 m) |
| Draft: | 35 ft (11 m) maximum |
| Installed power: |
16,000 hp (11.9 MW) per shaft 34,442 hp (25.7 MW) total sustained |
| Propulsion: | Two medium-speed Colt-Pielstick PC4-2/2 10V-570 diesel engines, two shafts, controllable-pitch propellers |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Capacity: |
159,000 barrels of fuel oil and jet fuel 7,400 square feet dry cargo space; eight 20-foot refrigerated containers with room for 128 pallets |
| Complement: | 103 (18 civilian officers, 1 U.S. Navy officer, 64 merchant seamen, 20 U.S. Navy enlisted personnel) |
| Armament: |
Peacetime: usually none Wartime: probably 2 x 20-mm Phalanx CIWS |
| Aircraft carried: | None |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter landing platform |
| Notes: |
Five refueling stations Two dry cargo transfer rigs |
USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201) is a Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment oiler operated by the Military Sealift Command to support ships of the United States Navy.
Patuxent, the fifteenth ship of the Henry J. Kaiser class, was laid down at Avondale Shipyard, Inc., at New Orleans, Louisiana, on 16 October 1991 and launched on 23 July 1994. She was the first ship of the class -- and one of only three of the eighteen Henry J. Kaiser-class ships, the other two being USNS Laramie (T-AO-203) and USNS Rappahannock (T-AO-204) -- to be built with a double bottom in order to meet the requirements of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. Hull separation is 6 feet (1.83 meters) at the sides and 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 meters) on the bottom, reducing her liquid cargo capacity by about 21,000 barrels from that of the 15 ships of her class without a double bottom.
Patuxent entered non-commissioned U.S. Navy service under the control of the Military Sealift Command with a primarily civilian crew on 21 June 1995. She serves in the United States Atlantic Fleet.
References
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
External links
- NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive: USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201)
- USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201)
- Wildenberg, Thomas (1996). Gray Steel and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea in the U.S. Navy, 1912-1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/GSBO/index.html. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
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