Shipbucket

I'm planning to draw the american Fast Combat Support Ships class's USN Sacramento Class AOE-1 Sacramento and the succeeder the Military Sealift Command's Supply Class USNS T-AOE 6 Supply. But only if no one already has drawn them or planning to do it! Comments please

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DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
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Thank you!

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My Avatar:Петр Алексеевич Безобразов (Petr Alekseevich Bezobrazov), Вице-адмирал , царская ВМФ России(1845-1906) - I sign my drawings as Ari Saarinen

Would be great! Myself I always have wanted to do the T-AKR 112 CAPE TEXAS, but I'm lacking drawings.

While your all wait for my first draft of the migty shipp USS Sacramento (4 in class: Sacramento - Cambden - Arctic - Detroit) who was a support ship that could all forms of supplying and follow the carrier group concerning speed I'll give you the specifications:

Propulsion plant 2 - turbines, producing 50,000 horsepower at 4,829 rpm
Boilers 4 - boilers - 600 psi at 856oF super-heated steam
Main Condenser cooling water flow rate is 50,000 gallons per minute
Main Reduction Gear Diameter 14 feet, 4 inches
Fuel comsumption 9,527 Gallons-Per-Hour with all boilers at 100%
Propeller two 23 foot diameter propellers with 6 blades
Length: Overall Length: 242,3m/795 ft
Beam: 32,6m/107 ft
Draft Maximum Navigational Draft: 11,9m/39 ft Draft Limit: 41 ft
Displacement: 53,000 tons full load
51,964-54,000 tons Full Displacement
19,623-20,144 tons Light Displacement
31,071-31,820 tons Dead Weight
Speed: 32 knots plus. 26 knots (30 miles/hour / 48 km/hour)
Radius 10,000 miles at 17 knots
CARGO CAPACITY LIQUID CARGO CAPACITY 8,219,387 Gallons
ORDNANCE CAPACITY 3,000 Tons

Aircraft: 2 - CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters
Boats 2 26' Motor Whale Boats
2 33' Personnel Boats
Anchors 2 12-1/2 tons (1,480 of Chain)
CRANES 1 15-Ton (Capacity)
Armament: NATO Sea Sparrow missiles
2 - Phalanx close-in weapons systems
Crew: 24 officers, 576 enlisted
Unit Cost: $458-568 million

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Work in progress:
DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
FF Type 21 Class D182 PNS Babur (2000)(PAK)
All relevant Coat of Arms

In fact, of the four only the Sacramento was able to do 30 knots or more, the others (Camden, Seattle and Detroit could manage 26 knots) and she repeatedly beat all the other fleet replenishment vessels, sometimes even appearing on a certain spot way ahead of the Carrier or Battleship Task Force she was assigned to!

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My Avatar:Петр Алексеевич Безобразов (Petr Alekseevich Bezobrazov), Вице-адмирал , царская ВМФ России(1845-1906) - I sign my drawings as Ari Saarinen

I just want to announce that I'm not stopped working on USS Sacramento, but fully engaged to change my first draft. Originally I wanted to make her as she looks, when she was commisioned in 1964. But all though I got several pictures from the sixties they were - more or less - all from the port side. How many times she had been refitted I don't know, but recently I found a bunch of photos from starboard, but all from the last of her service time (2000 - 2004). Right now I'm busy with the changing to the "new" (or rather "last") look. It's a bit more complicated than I anticipated

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Work in progress:
DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
FF Type 21 Class D182 PNS Babur (2000)(PAK)
All relevant Coat of Arms

Excellent choice, Kim. Exactly what I am craving for!

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My Avatar:Петр Алексеевич Безобразов (Petr Alekseevich Bezobrazov), Вице-адмирал , царская ВМФ России(1845-1906) - I sign my drawings as Ari Saarinen

HA, you could told me then! Would have spared me for lot of frustrations. Anyway nothing is bad but good for something else. I've got a lots of practice

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Work in progress:
DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
FF Type 21 Class D182 PNS Babur (2000)(PAK)
All relevant Coat of Arms

Well, don't ya know already what I'm thinkin'??

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My Avatar:Петр Алексеевич Безобразов (Petr Alekseevich Bezobrazov), Вице-адмирал , царская ВМФ России(1845-1906) - I sign my drawings as Ari Saarinen

Now I've made my first draft of USS Sacramento in her last year. With more than 40 years in service she had changed several times. I'll reckon it's possible to make at least five different editions of her because of the refittings made during these years. The challenge is to find the proper informations, blueprints and photos etc.
But here she is. Only as the first draft but the big blocks are in place now.

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Work in progress:
DD County Class PNS Babur (1982)(PAK)
FF Type 21 Class D182 PNS Babur (2000)(PAK)
All relevant Coat of Arms