Mizar (T-AGOR-11)
The Y-AGOR-11 in the 1980s
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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 In the 1990s, the ship was withdrawn from active service and reclassified as AK-272 .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
- 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
- ^ Silverstone, p. 204
- ↑ Antarctic Projects Office, p. 35
- ↑ AK-270 Eltanin Class at usnavy.skyrocket.de
- ↑ Mizar (AK-272) II at history.navy.mil
- ↑ USNS Mizar (T-AK-272, later T-AGOR-11) at ibiblio.org
- ↑ USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11) at navsource.org