MV Virginian

MV Virginian conducts a side-by-side off-load operation with MV Troubadour off the coast of Talamone, Italy, March 27, 2006.
MV Virginian conducts a side-by-side off-load operation with MV Troubadour off the coast of Talamone, Italy on March 27, 2006.
History
United States[1]
OwnerSealift Incorporated
OperatorSealift Incorporated
Launched16 December 1983
Completed1984[1]
Identification
FateScrapped 22 August 2012
General characteristics
Tonnage
Displacement
  • 34,601 tons[2]
  • 9,849 tons light[3]
Length480.4 ft (146.4 m)[1]
Beam105.0 ft (32.0 m)[1]
Draft29.0 ft (8.8 m) maximum navigational draft[3]
Depth41.3 ft (12.6 m) molded depth[1]
Propulsiontwo main engines driving two independent propellers[3][4]
Speed16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)[2]
Capacitytotal 1413 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU)[4]
Crew21 civilians[2]

MV Virginian (T-AK 9205), formerly named the MV Strong Virginian (T-AKR-9205), is a combination container, heavy lift, and roll-on/roll-off ship.[2][4] Owned and operated by Sealift Incorporated of Oyster Bay, New York, the ship is one of seventeen container—roll-on/roll-off ships in use by the Military Sealift Command, and one of 28 ships assigned to that organization's Sealift Program Office.[2] The ship was previously known as the MV Saint Magnus and the MV Jolly Indaco.[3]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h United States Coast Guard, 2008.
  2. ^ a b c d e Military Sealift Command, 2008, MV VIRGINIAN (T-AK 9205).
  3. ^ a b c d United States Navy, 2006.
  4. ^ a b c Sealift Incorporated 2008, MV Virginian.