USNS Salvor (T-ARS-52)

The Salvor at sea
Overview
Order	February 11, 1982
Keel laying	September 16, 1983
Launch	July 28, 1984
1. Period of service
Commissioning	June 14, 1986
Technical specifications
displacement	loaded 3,335  tons unloaded 2,509 tons
length	77.7 meters
width	15.2 meters
Draft	4.7 meters
crew	26 civil, 4 military
drive	2 propellers
speed	15 knots

The USNS Salvor (T-ARS-52) is a seaworthy American salvage ship of the Safeguard class of the Military Sealift Command of the United States Navy (since January 12, 2007). It is commissioned as the United States Naval Ship (USNS) and belongs to the US Navy Combat Logistics Support Force .

It was built in the Peterson Builders shipyard , Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin . It was launched in 1984. The hull is made of steel and reinforced at the bow for use in icy areas. His home port is Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

It is powered by four diesel engines (Caterpillar 399), the output is 3.1  megawatts on the shaft, which corresponds to 4,200 shaft horsepower (shp). The two propellers are variable pitch propellers with Kort nozzles . The LOA is 77.7 meters, the displacement is 3,335 tons loaded, 2,509 tons unloaded. The maximum speed is 15 knots. The occupation is mostly civil (26 civilians, 4 soldiers).

The Salvor (foreground) and other ships salvage the USS Port Royal from a reef off Pearl Harbor in February 2009

Intended use

• Salvage
• Towing

equipment

Decompression chamber on board the ship

• Three extinguishing cannons for fire fighting with a water film-forming foam compound ( AFFF ) mixed with sea water, each with a delivery rate of 3.79 m³ / min. The Salvor has a foam concentrate tank with a capacity of 3,600 gallons.
• Cranes
  • 7.5 t payload at the bow
  • 40 t payload at the rear
• Winch (double drum) with a bollard pull of 68 tons and a steel cable 914.4 meters (3000 feet) long and 56.9 millimeters (2.24 inches) in diameter
• Anchor with winches
  • Patent anchor, stockless weighing 3,636 tons (8,000 pounds)
  • Patent anchor weighing 2,727 tons (6,000 pounds)
• Dinghies
  • two aluminum boats (each 10.66 m long) for work purposes
  • two rigid inflatable boats (each 4.26 m long) for work purposes
• Diving equipment (SCUBA) including basket
  • decompression chamber
• On-board weapons
  • two 25-mm automatic cannon M242 Bushmaster
  • two 12.7 mm Browning M2 machine guns

Calls

(incomplete)

• Most recently (March 2010) Yellow Sea : Search for the Cheonan (PCC-772)

See also

• List of support ships of the United States Navy

Web links

Commons : USNS Salvor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• navysite.de: USNS Salvor

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} navysite.de
2. ↑ nvr.navy.mil ( Memento from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )