TAVB-4 Curtiss

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Wright, [AK].

Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, U.S.A.

Launch date: 01 December 1968.

Commission date: 01 July 1969.

Displacement ( tons ): 12.409 light, 23.800 at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 183,49 x 24,43 x 10,36

Main machinery: 2 x Combustion Engineering boilers, 2 x GE turbines ( 30000 hp ), 1 x propeller.

Speed ( knots ): 19.

Complement: 37 + 1 x Aircraft Maintenance Detachment ( 362 ).

Callsign: WMRM ()

Comment: Ex - SS Great Republic, Ex - SS Mormacksky. Converted to current duties as aviation logistic support ship by Todd Shipyards, Galveston, Texas in 1987.