TAFS-10 Saturn

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Lyness, [AF].

Builder: Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.

Launch date: 01 September 1966.

Commission date: 10 August 1967.

Decommission date: 06 April 2009.

Displacement ( tons ): 9.010 standard, 16.792 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 159,7 x 22 x 6,7

Main machinery: 1 x Wallsend-Sulzer 8RD76 diesel ( 11.520 hp ), 1 shaft.

Speed ( knots ): 18.

Range ( miles ): 12.000 at 16 knots.

Complement: 116 ( with 18 personnel from the Navy, including an officer ).

Military lift: 8.313m³ fro dry loads; 3.921m³ of frozen loads.

Helicopter: can operate 2 x CH46D/E Seaknight. It usually carries a Superpuma, operated by Geo Seis.

Callsign: NADH ()

Comment: Has an internal tv circuit that can track all loading movements within the ship. It also has air conditioned in all parts of the ship. The Saturn, after having been leased for a time, was bought to the United Kingdom the 10st of october 1983.

Awards (as of 06/04/2009): 

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