RFA Stromness (A344)

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Career
Ordered: Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend as Yard Nr 2017	7 December 1964
Laid down:	5 October 1965
Launched:	16 September 1966
Commissioned:	30 March 1967
Decommissioned:	1983
Fate:	Acquired on charter by United States Military Sealift Command in April 1983 and was renamed USNS SATURN(T-AFS 10). Purchased by USMSC on 1 October 1983
Struck:	1983
General characteristics
Displacement:	16792 tons full load
Length:	523'04"
Beam:	72'03"
Draught:	25'06"
Propulsion:	1 x 8 cyl Sulzer diesel.
Speed:	17 knots
Range:
Complement:	110 RFA + 50 Stores Working Party
Armament:
Aircraft:	Fitted with a flight deck but no hangar facilities until purchased by USMSC.
Motto:

RFA Stromness (A344) was a fleet stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

In the early 1980s the ship was bought by the United States.

v • d • e Ness class combat stores ship Lyness · Tarbatness · Stromness Preceded by: · Followed by: List of replenishment ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary

"STROM" saw serious service during the Falklands campaign where she carried over 400 troops of "45" Commando Royal Marines to the beach landing in San Carlos Water.