Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: swilliam@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Williams) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: USS Col. Wm O'Brien Message-ID: <1990Nov29.004517.21240@cbnews.att.com> Date: 29 Nov 90 00:45:17 GMT References: <1990Nov25.223548.14775@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD Lines: 42 Approved: military@att.att.com From: swilliam@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Williams) In article <1990Nov25.223548.14775@cbnews.att.com> someone writes: >From: Eric Price > I wonder If any body out there has any information on what ever > happend to the USS Colonel Willam O'Brian (aka the O'Brien). > Can anyone give any specifics as to this type of ship, gross weight, > powerplant etc etc. I believe that you are talking about USS Colonel William J. O'Brien (T-AK 246). She was a "CALLAGHAN" type cargo ship. >From Jane's Fighting Ships 1974-75, page 499, the following information of the lead ship of the ADMIRAL WM. M. CALLAGHAN class is given: Name: ADMIRAL WM. M. CALLAGHAN Displacement, tons: 24,000 full load Dimension, feet: 694 Main Engines: 2 gas turbines (General Electric LM 2500); 50,000 SHP; 2 shafts=26 knots Complement: 33 Builder: SUN SB & DD Launched: 17 Oct 1967 Named for the first commander of Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS). Roll-on/roll-off vehicle cargo ship built especially for long-term charter to Military Sealift Command. Internal parking decks and ramps for carrying 750, employing four side ramps and stern ramp, the CALLAGHAN can off load and reload full vehicle capacity in 27 hours. All surviving small cargo ships of this type have been stricken: HERKIMER (T-AK 188), MUSKINGUM (T-AK 198) transferred to US Department of Interior on 15 June 1973; SHORT SPLICE (T-AK 249) stricken on 15 June 1973; COLONEL WILLIAM J. O'BRIEN (T-AK 246) stricken on 1 Sep 1973; FENTRESS (T-AK 180), PVT. FRANK J. PETRARCA (T-AK 250) stricken on 15 Oct 1973. See 1973-1974 and previous editions for characteristics.