USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201) - IMO 8906614



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
Identification:
Status: In active Military Sealift Command service
General characteristics
Class and type: Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler
Tonnage: 31,200 DWT
Displacement: 9,500 tons light
42,000 long tons (43,000 t) 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 (12,000 kW) per shaft
34,442 hp (25,683 kW) 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; 23 mph)
Capacity: 159,000 barrels (25,300 m3) of fuel oil and jet fuel
7,400 sq ft (690 m2) dry cargo space
8 20-foot (6.1 m) refrigerated containers with room for 128 pallets
Complement: 1 U.S. Navy officer
20 U.S. Navy enlisted personnel
18 civilian officers
64 merchant seamen
103 total
Armament: Peacetime: usually none
Wartime: probably 2 × 20-mm Phalanx CIWS[clarification needed]
Aircraft carried: None
Aviation facilities: Helicopter landing platform
Notes: Five refueling stations
Two dry cargo transfer rigs

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