Design

• Designer: Maritime Administration
• Builder: Aerojet-General Shipyards, Jacksonville, FL
• Launched: March 1967
• Delivered: April 1968
• Commissioned: October 1968
• Hull Number: S221
• Call Letters: WTEF
• Home Port: Seattle, WA

• Length (LOA): 70.4 m (231 ft.)
• Breadth (moulded): 12.8 m (42 ft.)
• Draft, Maximum: 4.4 m (14.3 ft.)
• Hull: Welded steel/ice strengthened
• Displacement: 1,800 tons
• Gross Tonnage: 1,591
• Net Tonnage: 578

Speed & Endurance

• Cruising Speed: 12 knots
• Range: 5,898 nmi
• Endurance: 22 days
• Endurance Constraint: Stability

Scientific Laboratory Facilities

• Dry Oceanographic lab: 240 sq. ft.

Food-Service Seating

• Wardroom: 12
• Ship's Officers Mess: 11
• Technicians Mess: 18
• Crew's Mess: 18

Berthing Capacity

• Single staterooms: 5
• Double staterooms: 18
• Four bunk rooms: 9
• Total bunks: 79

Medical Facilities

• Emergency and first-aid equipment aboard, administered by trained vessel personnel.

Complement

• Commissioned Officers: 10
• Licensed Engineers: 4
• Crew: 35
• Scientists: 4 (Max)

Deck Drawings (in .gif fornat)

• Inboard Profile (72k)
• Deck Plan: Top House (10k)
• Deck Plan: Navigation Bridge (20k)
• Deck Plan: Superstructure (34k)
• Deck Plan: Main Deck (53k)
• Deck Plan: 2nd Deck (49k)
• Deck Plan: Tank Top (48k)
• Deck Plan: Innerbottom (18k)

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