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USNS Zeus (T-ARC 7)

21/9/2016

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USNS Zeus photographed in Portsmouth naval base on 27 October 2015.

She was the first cable ship designed and built by the U.S. Navy.

Her role is the installation and maintenance of submarine cable systems. 
 
She is fitted with a wide array of cable handling equipment and can lay up to 1,000 miles of cable in depths of up to 9,000 feet without resupply and is also equipped with both single-beam and multi-beam sonars for bottom profiling and can deploy towed sidescan sonars and camera sleds.

Built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA she is 157m long and has a 24m beam. Propulsion is diesel electric, twin shafts (10,200 shp) giving a speed of 15 knots. Displacement is 14,563.34 tons. She can carry upto 86 personnel.

MMSI - 367212000
REG - US
IMO -  7932408
Call Sign - NVTM
Cable Ship
Built -  National Steel & Shipbuilding Co, San Diego, US
Yard No.418
L 157m x W 24m
GT - 14563
Year - 1984
Portsmouth - 27 October 2015
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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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