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SS Regulus (AKR-292)
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 USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292) (1983 - 2007)
 USNS Regulus (T-AK-292) (1981 - 1983)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Lima - Whiskey - Alpha
 NLWA
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
National Defense Service Medal - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
Algol Class (Roll-on/Roll-off Vehicle) Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down as SS Sea-Land Commerce at A.G. Weser, Bremen, Germany, (date unknown)
  • Launched, 1 December 1972
  • Delivered to Sea-Land Services Inc. in 1 March 1973
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 1 May 1982
  • Assigned to MSC as USNS Regulus (T-AK-292)
  • Redesignated Roll-on/Roll-off Vehicle Cargo Ship (T-AKR-292), 1 November 1983
  • USS Regulus (T-AKR-292) was one of the eight Fast Sealift Ships in the Surge Force, assigned to MSC Atlantic
  • Regulus was returned to MARAD custody, 1 October 2007 and laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet Beaumont, TX. in 5-day RRF status (ROS-5)
    Specifications:
    Displacement 29,692 t.(lt) 61,987 t.(fl)
    Length 947'
    Beam 106'
    Draft 37'
    Speed 33 kts.
    Complement 43 civilian mariners
    Armament none
    Propulsion
    two Foster-Wheeler boilers, 875 psi (61.6kg/cm2), 950°F (510°C)
    two General Electric MST-19 steam turbines
    twin propellers 120,000shp
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    For Full Size Image    		Size Image Description Source
    Merchant Service USA Sea-Land Services Inc.
    Regulus 197k Newspaper photo of SS Sea-Land Commerce being delivered at Bremen, Germany in 1973. Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Regulus 483k SS Sea-Land Commerce at Yokohama, Japan, August 1975. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292)
    Regulus
    0913001404    		 49k
    Namesake
    Regulus is the brightest object in the constellation Leo and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.    		 Tommy Trampp
    Tripoli
    101110131    		 418k USS Tripoli (LPH-10) moored in the National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. at San Diego, CA. shipyard near USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292) and the 70% completed tanker to hospital ship conversion USNS Mercy (T-AH-19), 27 August 1985. A Spruance-class destroyer also can be seen in the distance.
    Photo by National Steel & Shipbuilding Co.    		 Yu Chu
    Regulus 276k USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292) moored at the Norfolk and Western Railway Pier 0, Lambert Point Docks, Norfolk, VA., 29 October 1988.
    US Navy photo    		 Bill Gonyo
    Regulus 49k USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292) underway departing San Diego, CA., date unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 MSC Web Site
    Regulus 56k USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292) at anchor in the Bay of Gibraltar, 30 November 1993 Photo by Daniel Ferro
    Regulus 263k USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292) offloading a US Marine Logistic Vehicle System (LVS) at Auckland Port, Gladstone, Australia, 17 September 1999, during exercise Crocodile '99 in the Shoalwater Bay Training Area, Queensland, Australia. An M 47 dump truck sits to the right of the ramp.
    US Department of Defense photo # 990917-N-6234S-010, a US Navy photo by PH1 Daniel E. Smith.    		 Robert Hurst
    Regulus 272k A container crane loads USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292) with trucks, trailers and other U.S. Marine Corps cargo bound for Operation Iraqi Freedom, 3 April 2008.
    US Navy (MSC) photo    		 Robert Hurst
    Denebola 404k USNS Denebola (T-AKR-289) (outboard) with USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292) (inboard) moored pierside at Baltimore, 2 June 2010. Photo by Ramon Jackson
    SS Regulus (AKR-292) MARAD RRF
    Regulus 242k SS Regulus (AKR-292) moored in her berth at in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont TX., 2 November 2014 Photo by Chris Holley
    There is no DANFS history available for USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292) at Navsource
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    MARAD Vessel History Database
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