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By A.D. Baker III, Editor, Combat Fleets of the World
Flying her “paying off” pendant, the 22-year old Royal Australian Navy destroyer tender Stalwart enters Sydney Harbor for the last time on 8 December 1989. The 15,500-ton full load vessel has facilities to support destroyers and frigates, can carry spare missiles and other weapons, and has a hangar for a Sea King- sized helicopter. Formerly equipped as the flagship of the RAN, Stalwart is for sale. Relatively new and economical to operate—only 396 personnel make up her crew—she would make a useful adjunct to many navies.
ROYAL AUSTRALIAN
Self-propelled lifting lighter Moorhen was delivered on 26 April 1989 to the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service for use as a mooring buoy tender and general salvage craft at Portsmouth. Her sister Moorfowl was completed two months later, and a third is to be ordered. The bluff-hulled craft is highly maneuverable, with two Aquamaster azimuth propellers aft and a bow-thruster. Like all RMAS craft, she has a colorful paint scheme of black-painted hull with buff superstructure and white trim.
MTU NORTH Afi
The U.S. Navy’s 160-foot, 200-ton surface effect ship IX-515 (formerly the SES-200) will be repowered by MTU North America. The research vessel will be fitted with two MTU 16V396TB94 diesels rated at 3,433 brake horsepower each, driving Swedish KaMeWa waterjet propulsion units. The repowering is sponsored by the Defense Dept.’s foreign Weapons Evaluation/NATO Comparative Testing Program.
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