USCGC Katherine Walker
Appearance
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Kathrine Walker |
Namesake | The Keeper of the Robbins Reef Light |
Owner | United States |
Operator | US Coast Guard |
Builder | Fincantieri Marine Group |
Laid down | 8 April 1996 |
Launched | 14 September 1996 |
Homeport | Bayonne, New Jersey |
Identification | WLM-552 |
Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Type | Keeper Class Buoy Tender |
Tonnage | 903 tons |
Length | 53 m (173.9 ft) |
Beam | 11 m (36.1 ft) |
Height | 2.4 m (7.9 ft) |
Decks | 1 |
Ice class | Can breake ice of about 35 mm thickness at 3 kn |
Installed power | 2 x CAT 3508 TA diesels, |
Propulsion | 2 x Ulstein/Rolls Royce 360 degree steerable Z-Drives plus 600 HP Electric Bow Thruster |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Range | 2000 nautical miles at 10 kn |
Capacity | Buoy deck area: 1/335ft2 |
Crew | 24 (2 Officers, 22 Enlisted) |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Aviation facilities | Crane: 1 x 10 ton |
USCGS Katherine Walker is a Keeper-class Coastal Buoy Tender of the United States Coast Guard. Her keel was laid on 8 April 1996 by Fincantieri Marine Group.[1] Her namesake is Katherine Walker the keeper of the Robbins Reef Light; Mrs. Walker is responsible for saving the lives of 50 people.[2] As well as keeping many ships away from the rocks. USCGC Katherine Walker is responsible for a total of 335 aids to navigation (ATON).[3]
References
- ^ "USCGC KATHERINE WALKER (Buoy ship)". FleetMon.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ "USCGC Katherine Walker (WLM 552) - MilitaryNews.com: The ... - FlipHTML5". fliphtml5.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ "USCGC Katherine Walker". www.atlanticarea.uscg.mil. Archived from the original on 2018-03-02. Retrieved 1 February 2019.