| USNS Big Horn (T-AO-198) | |
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 USNS Big Horn (T-AO-198) | |
| Career (USA) |  |
| Name: | USNS Big Horn |
| Namesake: | The Bighorn River in Wyoming and Montana |
| Ordered: | 20 June 1988 |
| Builder: | Avondale Shipyard, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Laid down: | 9 October 1989 |
| Launched: | 2 February 1991 |
| In service: | 21 May 1992-present |
| Status: | In active Military Sealift Command service |
| Badge: |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment 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; 23 mph) |
| Capacity: |
178,000 to 180,000 barrels (29,000 m3) of fuel oil and jet fuel 7,400 square feet dry cargo space; eight 20-foot (6.1 m) refrigerated containers 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 Big Horn (T-AO-198) is a Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler of the United States Navy.
Big Horn, the twelfth ship of the Henry J. Kaiser class, was laid down at Avondale Shipyard, Inc., at New Orleans, Louisiana, on 9 October 1989 and launched on 2 February 1991. She entered non-commissioned U.S. Navy service under the control of the Military Sealift Command with a primarily civilian crew on 21 May 1992. She serves in the United States Atlantic Fleet.
This ship was one of several participating in disaster relief after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The Big Horn brought relief supplies to Haiti.During Operation Unified Response, Big Horn transferred 618 pallets of cargo and humanitarian assistance/disaster relief supplies and over 2,000,000 gallons of fuel.USNS Big Horn got underway from Naval Station Norfolk the day after the earthquake struck, arrived on scene in Haiti on January 17 and worked until being relieved by USNS Leroy Grumman on February 11.[1]
References[]
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to USNS Big Horn (T-AO-198). |
- NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive: USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO-195)
- USNS Big Horn (T-AO 198)
- Wildenberg, Thomas (1996). Gray Steel and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea in the U.S. Navy, 1912-1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/GSBO/index.html. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
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