USNS Guadalupe (T-AO-200) |
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Name: | USNS Guadalupe |
Namesake: | The Guadalupe River in Texas |
Ordered: | 6 October 1988 |
Builder: | Avondale Shipyard, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana |
Laid down: | 9 July 1990 |
Launched: | 5 October 1991 |
In service: | 25 September 1992-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 Full load variously reported as 42,382 tons and 40,700 long tons (41,353 metric tons) |
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: | 178,000 to 180,000 barrels (28,300 to 29,000 m3) of fuel oil and jet fuel 7,400 square feet (690 m2) dry cargo space; eight 20-foot (6.1 m) refrigerated container 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 Guadalupe (T-AO-200) is a Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment oiler operated by the Military Sealift Command to support ships of the United States Navy.
Guadalupe, the fourteenth ship of the Henry J. Kaiser class, was laid down at Avondale Shipyard, Inc., at New Orleans, Louisiana, on 9 July 1990 and launched on 5 October 1991. She entered non-commissioned U.S. Navy service under the control of the Military Sealift Command with a primarily civilian crew on 25 September 1992. She serves in the United States Pacific Fleet.
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