Mizar (T-AGOR-11)

USNS Mizar

The Y-AGOR-11 in the 1980s

Ship data flag  United States Ship type Cargo ship research ship class Eltanin class Shipyard Avondale Shipyard , Avondale Launch October 7, 1957 Whereabouts Wrecked in 2005

Ship dimensions and crew length 81.0 (266 feet) m ( Lüa ) width 15.8 (52 feet) m Draft Max. 5.4 (18 feet) m displacement 1850 construction, 3886 maximum measurement 2486 GRT   crew 42

Machine system machine 2 × 12-cylinder Alco - diesel-electric engines Machine performance 3200 hp Top speed 13 kn (24 km / h) propeller 2

Armament no

The USNS Mizar (T-AK-272 / T-AGOR-11) was a ship in the United States Navy . The name is derived from Stern Mizar .

Construction and technical data

The ship was built in 1957 at Avondale Marine Ways in Avondale (Louisiana) as a cargo ship for icy areas and was after the Eltanin and the Mirfak the third of the three sister ships of the Eltanin class . The Mizar was on 1 January 1957 laid down on and ran on October 7, 1957 from the stack . The hull is of type C1-ME2-13a according to the United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) as an ice class cargo ship with a reinforced bow.

It was 81.0 meters long, 15.8 meters wide and had a maximum draft of 5.4 meters. She was measured at 2486 GRT and had a design displacement of 1850 tons (3886 t maximum). The drive consisted of two 12-cylinder diesel-electric motors from Alco , the combined output of which was 3,200 hp . These acted on two screws , the ship reached a speed of 13.0 knots . The crew consisted of 42 men.

history

The Mizar entered service in March 1958 and drove under the command of the Military Sea Transportation Service , mostly in the waters of Canada and Greenland , to supply the military bases there. Only in 1961 did the ship go on one voyage in Antarctica . In memory of this mission, the Mizar Nunatakker have had her name since 1965 .

In 1963 the Mizar was rebuilt and put back into service in 1964 as the T-AGOR-11 . The ship is now sailing under the Naval Research Laboratory and was a deep - research vessel . Among other things, the Mizar had a deep-sea probe with searchlights, camera, magnetometer and sonar . The Mizar helped in the search for the two lost nuclear submarines of the Navy, the USS Thresher (SSN-593) in 1963 and the USS Scorpion (SSN-589) in 1968. The Mizar also searched for Soviet submarines like the K-129 .

In 1975 the ship was placed under the Military Sealift Command and modified further in 1980. In the 1990s, the ship was withdrawn from active service and reclassified as AK-272 . The ship was placed under the reserve fleet and in 2005 the order to demolish the ship was issued.

literature

• Paul Silverstone: The Navy of the Nuclear Age, 1947–2007 ( limited preview in Google Book Search )
• United States. Antarctic Projects Office: Support for Science Antarctica , September 1965 ( preview in Google Book Search )

Web links

Commons : USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mizar (AK-272) II at history.navy.mil , accessed on November 3, 2019
• USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11) at navsource.org , accessed November 3, 2019
• AK-270 Eltanin Class at usnavy.skyrocket.de , accessed on November 3, 2019
• USNS Mizar (T-AK-272, later T-AGOR-11) at ibiblio.org , access: November 3, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ^ Silverstone, p. 204
2. ↑ Antarctic Projects Office, p. 35
3. ↑ AK-270 Eltanin Class at usnavy.skyrocket.de
4. ↑ Mizar (AK-272) II at history.navy.mil
5. ↑ USNS Mizar (T-AK-272, later T-AGOR-11) at ibiblio.org
6. ↑ USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11) at navsource.org