RFA Tarbatness (A345)

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Career RFA EnsignUSN Jack
Ordered: Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend as Yard Nr 2018 7 December 1964
Laid down: 15 April 1966
Launched: 28 February 1967
Commissioned: 10 August 1967
Decommissioned: 1980. Laid up at Gibraltar on 1 April.
Fate: Acquired on charter by United States Military Sealift Command on 30 September 1981. Renamed USNS SPICA (T-AFS 9) on 5 November 1981. Purchased by USMSC on 30 September 1982.
Struck:
General characteristics
Displacement: 16792 tons full load
Length: 523'04"
Beam: 72'03"
Draught: 25'06"
Propulsion: 1 x 8 cyl Sulzer diesel.
Speed: 17 knots
Range:
Complement: 110 RFA + 50 Stores Working Party
Armament:
Aircraft: Fitted with a flight deck but no hangar facilities until purchased by USMSC.
Motto:

RFA Tarbatness (A345) was a fleet stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

In the early 1980s the ship was bought by the United States.