TAFS-8 Sirius

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Lyness, [AF].

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

Launch date: 01 April 1966.

Commission date: 22 December 1966.

Decommission date: 01 July 2005.

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 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: NPGA ()

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 Sirius, after having been leased for a time, was bought to the United Kingdom the 1st of march 1982. After decomission was transferred to the Texas Maritime Academy, and renamed 'Texas Clipper III'.

Awards (as of 01/07/2005): 

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