USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201) | |
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![]() USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201) | |
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Name: | USNS Patuxent |
Namesake: | The Patuxent River in Maryland |
Ordered: | 24 March 1989 |
Builder: | Avondale Shipyard, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana |
Laid down: | 16 October 1991 |
Launched: | 23 July 1994 |
In service: | 21 June 1995-present |
Status: | In active Military Sealift Command service |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler |
Tonnage: | 31,200 DWT |
Displacement: | 9,500 tons light42,000 long tons (43,000 t) full load |
Length: | 677 ft (206 m) |
Beam: | 97 ft 5 in (29.69 m) |
Draft: | 35 ft (11 m) maximum |
Installed power: | 16,000 hp (12,000 kW) per shaft34,442 hp (25,683 kW) 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: | 159,000 barrels (25,300 m3) of fuel oil and jet fuel7,400 sq ft (690 m2) dry cargo space8 20-foot (6.1 m) refrigerated containers with room for 128 pallets |
Complement: | 1 U.S. Navy officer20 U.S. Navy enlisted personnel18 civilian officers64 merchant seamen103 total |
Armament: | Peacetime: usually noneWartime: probably 2 × 20-mm Phalanx CIWS[Clarification needed] |
Aircraft carried: | None |
Aviation facilities: | Helicopter landing platform |
Notes: | Five refueling stationsTwo dry cargo transfer rigs |
USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201) is a Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment oiler operated by the Military Sealift Command to support ships of the United States Navy. Patuxent, the fifteenth ship of the Henry J. Kaiser class, was laid down at Avondale Shipyard, Inc., at New Orleans, Louisiana, on 16 October 1991 and launched on 23 July 1994. She was the first of three ships in the class of eighteen—the other two being USNS Laramie (T-AO-203) and USNS Rappahannock (T-AO-204)—to be built with a double hull required by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. Hull separation is 6 feet (1.8 m) at the sides and 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) at the bottom, reducing her liquid cargo capacity by about 21,000 barrels (3,300 m3) from that of the 15 single-hull ships in the class.
Patuxent entered non-commissioned U.S. Navy service under the control of the Military Sealift Command with a primarily civilian crew on 21 June 1995. She serves in the United States Atlantic Fleet.

Patuxent air lifts cargo to USS Makin Island (LHD-8)
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.
External links[]
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- Photo gallery of USNS Patuxent at NavSource Naval History
- USNS Patuxent (T-AO-201)
- 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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