Ness-class combat stores ship

Class of combat stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary

The USNS Spica

The Ness-class combat stores ship were a class of three combat stores ships built by Swan Hunter for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), the naval auxiliary fleet of the United Kingdom, in the mid-1960s. They were purchased by the United States Navy (USN) in the mid-1980s and renamed Sirius class. They were operated by Military Sealift Command for the USN until the late 2000s when they were deactivated.^[1]

References

^ Navy Source USNS Spica NavSource archives; accessed 20 April 2015

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Ness-class combat stores ships

Royal Navy

Lyness
Tarbatness
Stromness

United States Navy
Sirius class

Sirius (ex-Lyness)
Spica (ex-Tarbatness)
Saturn (ex-Stromness)

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