General Specifications

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Line Drawing by Bob Hitz    

Design

• Designer: Philip F. Spaudling
• Builder: American Shipbuilding, Toledo, OH
• Launched: 1967
• Delivered: June, 1967
• Laid up 5 years; recommissioned: 1974
• Hull Number: R 223
• Call Letters: WTDM
• Home Port: Seattle, Washington

• Length (LOA): 65.5 m (215 ft.)
• Breadth (moulded): 12.8 m (42 ft.)
• Draft, Maximum: 6.4 m (20.0 ft.)(with Centerboard up)
• Draft, Maximum: 9.8 m (32.0 ft.)(with Centerboard down)
• Hull: Welded steel
• Displacement: 1,920 tons
• Gross Tonnage: 1,515
• Net Tonnage: 680

Speed & Endurance

• Cruising Speed: 11 knots
• Range: 12,582 nmi
• Endurance: 31 days
• Endurance Constraint: Fuel

Scientific Laboratory Facilities

• See Laboratory Spaces

Food Service Seating

• Wardroom: 16
• Crew's mess: 16

Berthing

• Single Person Staterooms: 4
• Two Person Staterooms: 21
• Four Person Staterooms: 1
• Total Berths: 50

Medical Facilities

• Emergency and first-aid equipment aboard administered by an EMT.

Complement

• Commissioned officers: 7
• Licensed Engineers: 4
• Crew: 23
• Scientists: 11 (max)