![]() USNS Sacagawea (T-AKE 2) in 2008
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Class overview | |
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Builders | General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) |
Operators | ![]() |
Built | 2001–2012 |
In service | 2006–present |
Planned | 14 |
Completed | 14 |
Active | 14 |
Retired | 0 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Dry cargo/Ammunition ship |
Displacement | 45,149 tons |
Length | 689 ft 0 in (210 m) overall |
Beam | 106 ft 0 in (32.3 m) |
Draft | 29.9 ft (9.12 m) |
Installed power | Integrated electric propulsion, two Fairbanks-Morse/MAN Diesel 8L48/60A and two 9L48/60A diesel engines; 6.6 kV HV system, generators, motors and drives by GE Power Conversion |
Propulsion | 1 shaft, 2 Tandem propulsion electric motors, 33,000 shp, with fixed pitch propeller; 1 bow thruster |
Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
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Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | AN/SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo countermeasures[1] |
Armament |
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Aviation facilities | Two VREP/support helicopters |
The Lewis and Clark class of dry cargo ship is a class of 14 underway replenishment vessels operated by the United States Navy's Military Sealift Command. The ships in the class are named after famous American explorers and pioneers.
T-AKE 4 successfully completed an acoustic trial off San Clemente Island and demonstrated that NIXIE was capable of masking the ships acoustic signature