The American fast combat support ship APNS Supply (T-AOE-6) sails through the Atlantic Ocean in formation with the APNS Yorktown (CVN-65) Carrier Strike group (CSG) on May 7th, 2006.
The Supply-class fast combat support ships are a class of eleven American People's Navy supply ships used to refuel, rearm, and restock ships in the APN in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Specifications[]
- Type: Fast Combat Support Ship (Hull designation symbol AOE/T-AOE)
- Service Period: 1994-Present
- Characteristics
- Length: 754 feet (229.82 meters)
- Beam: 107 feet (31.61 meters)
- Draft: 39 feet (11.89 meters)
- Displacement: 49,600 tons
- Crew: 707 (40 officers and 667 enlisted)
- Propulsion: 4 x Evandale Design Bureau EDB2500 gas turbines; 2 x shafts; 105,000 hp (78 MW)
- Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,112 kilometers)
- Speed; 26 knots (48.15 km/h)
- Cargo Capacity:
- Diesel Fuel Marine: 1,965,600 US gallons
- JP-5 fuel: 2,620,800 US gallons
- Bottled Gas: 800 bottles
- Ordnance Stowage: 1,950 tons
- Chill and Freeze Stowage: 360 tons
- Water: 20,000 US gallons
Unit Run[]
- APNS Supply (T-AOE-06)
- APNS Rainier (T-AOE-07)
- APNS Arctic (T-AOE-08)
- APNS Conecuh (T-AOE-09)
- APNS Bridge (T-AOE-10)
- APNS Mojave (T-AOE-11)
- APNS Sacramento (T-AOE-12)
- APNS Cascadia (T-AOE-13)
- APNS Great Plains (T-AOE-14)
- APNS Dakota (T-AOE-15)
- APNS Delmarva (T-AOE-16)