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 RFA Stromness (A-344)
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RFA Stromness (A-344) ships crest. |
TJ Tropea RM1 USN Ret. USNS Sirius |
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Launching of RFA Stromness (A-344), 1 September 1966, at Swan, Hunter and Wingham, UK., Note her stack has not yet been installed. |
TJ Tropea RM1 USN Ret. USNS Sirius, courtesy RFA Association, Plymouth & District Branch, The Mortimore Gallery |
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RFA Stromness (A-344) underway, date and location unknown. |
TJ Tropea RM1 USN Ret. USNS Sirius, courtesy RFA Association, Plymouth & District Branch, The Mortimore Gallery |
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RFA Stromness (A-344) underway, date and location unknown. |
TJ Tropea RM1 USN Ret. USNS Sirius, courtesy RFA Association, Plymouth & District Branch, The Mortimore Gallery |
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Overhead view of RFA Stromness (A-344) underway, date and location unknown. |
TJ Tropea RM1 USN Ret. USNS Sirius, courtesy RFA Association, Plymouth & District Branch, The Mortimore Gallery |
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Port broadside view of RFA Stromness (A-344) underway, date and location unknown.
Royal Navy official photo, from "1968-69 Edition of Jane's Fighting Ships" |
Robert Hurst |
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RFA Stromness (A-344) at anchor off Key West, FL. in November 1978.
Photo by Raymond L. Blazevic. Florida Keys Public Libraries. Image # MM00036106. |
Robert Hurst |
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Starboard broadside view of RFA Stromness (A-344) underway, 1 January 1982, location unknown.
Photo by Gavin House. Defense Visual Information Center. ID:DN-SC-87-05079. |
Robert Hurst |
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RFA Stromness (A-344) with landing craft alongside in San Carlos Water, 'Bomb Alley', 1982. The image shows an Argentinean IAI
Dagger of Grupo 6 sweeping through the anchorage at low altitude on the morning of 24 May, photographed by Sub-Lt. Phil Dibb, RN, on board the fleet stores ship
RFA Fort Austin (A386). The bow of the fleet stores ship
RFA Resource (A480) can also be seen. To the Argentinean pilots the anchorage at San Carlos water was known as 'Death Alley'. Note the Dagger was an unlicensed Israeli copy of the French Mirage V.
Photo courtesy of Sub-Lt Phil Dibb. Photo and text from "Air War South Atlantic" by Jeffrey Ethell and Alfred Price. |
Robert Hurst |
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RFA Stromness (A-344) at anchor in San Carlos water as bombs land close alongside. At this time Stromness was carrying 200 tons of ammunition in her forward hold.
Photo Royal Navy News. Photo and text from "Safeguarding the Nation: The Story of the Modern Royal Navy" by John Roberts |
Robert Hurst |
 USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10)
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Namesake
Saturn - is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter |
Tommy Trampp |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) underway, circa 1983. This photo was taken prior to her completed turn over by the Royal Navy to the US Navy. Note she is still painted Royal Navy light gray vs. US Navy gray, yet she has her MSC stripes displayed on her stack. Also missing is the Comm van that would be temporarily installed atop the signal bridge until she received her complete AFS conversion.
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Photo by T.J. Tropea RM1 USN Ret. USNS Sirius |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) underway, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo |
MSC web site |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) and USNS Sirius (T-AFS-8), probably transferring cargo between the outgoing and
incoming AFS to the Mediterranean area, date unknown.
Photo courtesy Captain James Dolan, MSC, Master for the USNS Sirius |
T.J. Tropea RM1 USN Ret. USNS Sirius |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) moored outboard of USNS Sirius (T-AFS-8) while at Malaga, Spain circa 1984-85.
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Photo by T.J. Tropea RM1 USN Ret. USNS Sirius |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) and USNS Sirius (T-AFS-8) moored together at Toulon, France, 4 April 1990. |
T.J. Tropea RM1 USN Ret. USNS Sirius with permission from Hans Rosenkranz, SW Germany. |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) replenishes the aircraft carrier USS
America (CV-66). America, with assigned Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1), was deployed
to the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean from 2 December 1991 to 6 June 1992.
U.S. Navy photo from the USS America (CV-66) 1991-1992 cruise book |
Robert Hurst |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) underway in the harbor at Genoa, Italy, 29 August 1996. |
Photos by Carlo Martinelli |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) reduces speed and comes alongside USS Santa Barbara (AE 28) for an underway replenishment (UNREP). USNS Saturn and USS Santa Barbara were deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch when this photo was taken.
US Navy photo # 980522-N-4541B-001 by PH2 Gloria J. Barry. |
Bill Gonyo |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) breaks away from USS Santa Barbara (AE 28) after an underway replenishment (UNREP). USNS Saturn and USS Santa Barbara were deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Southern Watch when this photo was taken.
US Navy photo # 980522-N-4541B-009 by PH2 Gloria J. Barry. |
Bill Gonyo |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) arriving at Genoa, Italy, 27 May 1999, for a routine port visit. |
Photo by Carlo Martinelli |
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An SH-60 "Seahawk" from the "Red Lions" of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron
One Five (HS-15) transfers cargo during a vertical replenishment at sea (VERTREP) from USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) to USS George Washington (CVN 73) while underway in the Mediterranean Sea, 15 November 2000.
US Navy photo # 001115-N-9132D-001 by PH3 Glenn Dennis. |
Bill Gonyo |
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Loaded with cargo, a CH-46 "Sea Knight" lifts off the deck of USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10). Saturn and its aviation detachment from Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Eight (HC-8) "Dragon Whales" conducted a vertical replenishment with the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) (not shown). The ships are deployed and conducting missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
US Navy photo #
020209-N-1587C-079 At sea with USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Feb 9, 2002 by PH3 Alta I. Cutler. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Panorama view of USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) underway in 2005. |
Brandon J. Varner |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) moored pierside at Norfolk, VA., 10 April 2006 |
TJ Tropea, courtesy Marc Piché of Verchères, Québec, Canada |
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USNS Supply (T-AOE-6) and USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) moored at the NATO pier, Augusta Bay, Sicily, 19 May 2006. |
Photo by Primo Acireale |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) moored at the NATO pier, Augusta Bay, Sicily, 19 May 2006. |
Photo by Primo Acireale |
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Commandant Awalo, a Djiboutian Navy Sailor, watches as USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) makes her way into the port of Djibouti to take
on fuel and supplies, 15 July 2006.
US Navy photo # 060715-N-0411D-019 from Navy mil.com. Photo by MC2 Roger S. Duncan. |
Lee Wahler |
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Sailors on the port side elevator of USS Iwo Jima (LPD-7) move stores during a vertical replenishment (VERTREP) with USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) while in the Gulf of Aden, 29 August 2006.
US Navy photo # 060829-N-4856C-019 from Navy mil.com. Photo by MCSN Christopher L. Clark. |
Lee Wahler |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) and USNS Spica (T-AFS-9) steaming side by side during turnover, 14 February 2007, in the Red Sea. |
T.J. Tropea RM1 USN Ret USNS Sirius |
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Series of three photos showing USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) inbound from sea while enroute to Norfolk, VA., 23 May 2007. The third photo includes the outbound merchantman MV Maersk Mandraki.
Photos by Magogman of Ohio & Vermont, United States. |
TJ Tropea |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) rides at anchor at Bahia Malaga, Columbia, 27 August 2007 as an MH-60S Seahawk, from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28, prepares to transport cargo from USNS Saturn to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20). Comfort is on a four-month humanitarian deployment to Latin America and the Caribbean providing medical treatment to patients in a dozen countries.
US Navy photo # 070827-N-8704K-053 BAHIA MALAGA, Colombia (Aug. 27, 2007) from Navy mil.com. Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua Karsten. |
Lee Wahler |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) at anchor in Augusta Bay, Italy, 17 October 1987.
Department of Defense photo by PH2 Jeff Landenberger. |
Tommy Trampp |
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Starboard stern quarter view of USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) moored at Balboa, Panama, date unknown. |
TJ Tropea, courtesy Captain Pete, Sicilia, Italy |
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Stern view of USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) moored at Balboa, Panama, date unknown. |
TJ Tropea, courtesy Captain Pete, Sicilia, Italy |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) moored at Naval Station Norfolk, VA., circa April 2008. |
Photo by Larry Backus |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) pulling alongside and unidentified ship to conduct a replenishment at sea, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. |
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USNS Saturn (T-AFS 10) Air Det patch |
T.J. Tropea RM1 USN Re |
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The rescue and salvage ship USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) tows ex-USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) out to sea, 26 October 2010, to be released 250 miles off the North Carolina coast. Aircraft launched from the USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-73) Carrier Strike Group struck the decommissioned resupply ship with bombs and air-to-surface missiles, sending it to the bottom of the Atlantic in a two-day sinking exercise (SINKEX).
Photo courtesy Fred Woody. |
Lee Wahler |
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A Sailor aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG-57)
fires an M-240 machine gun at ex-USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) during a sinking exercise in the Atlantic Ocean, 26 October 2010. Mitscher and other
ships assigned to the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group fired live ammunition at Saturn.
US Navy photo # 101026-N-8913A-588 ATLANTIC OCEAN (26 Oct. 2010)by MCSN Leonard Adams. |
Robert Hurst |
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Rounds from the 5-inch Mark 45/54-caliber lightweight gun aboard the guided-missile destroyer
USS Mitscher (DDG-57) impact near ex-USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) during a sinking
exercise in the Atlantic Ocean, 26 October 2010. Mitscher and other ships assigned to the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group fired live ammunition at
Saturn.
US Navy photo # 101026-N-8913A-794 ATLANTIC OCEAN (26 Oct. 2010)by MCSN Leonard Adams. |
Robert Hurst |
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Rounds from a Mk-15 Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS) from the guided-missile destroyer
USS Mitscher (DDG-57) impact the ex-USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) during a sinking
exercise. Mitscher and other ships assigned to the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group fired live ammunition at Saturn.
101027-N-8913A-252 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 27, 2010) by MCSN Leonard Adams. |
Lee Wahler |
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Sailors aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg> (CG-64)
observe the ex-USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) during a sinking exercise. Gettysburg and other ships assigned to the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group fired live ammunition at Saturn.
101027-N-6632S-469 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 27, 2010) by MCSN Kevin J. Steinberg. |
Lee Wahler |
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Ex-USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) suffers extensive damage and is ablaze during a sinking exercise. Ships assigned to the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group fired live ammunition at the ship.
101027-N-8913A-382 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 27, 2010) by MCSN Leonard Adams. |
Lee Wahler |
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Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG-57) observe
the ex-USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) during a sinking exercise in the Atlantic Ocean, 26 October 2010 . Mitscher and other ships assigned to the
George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group fired live ammunition at Saturn.
US Navy photo # 101027-N-1854W-115 ATLANTIC OCEAN (27 Oct. 2010)by MC1 Jason C. Winn. |
Robert Hurst |
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Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG-57)
fire a .50-caliber machine gun at the ex-USNS Saturn (T-AFS-10) during a sinking exercise in the Atlantic Ocean, 26 October 2010. Mitscher and
other ships assigned to the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group fired live ammunition at Saturn.
US Navy photo # 101027-N-1854W-179 ATLANTIC OCEAN (27 Oct. 2010)by MC1 Jason C. Winn. |
Robert Hurst |
