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Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Retrieval Ships
KSC Release No. 46-81

Revised June 1998



  Length 176 feet (53.6 meters)
  Beam 37 feet (11.3 meters)
  Depth 15 feet (4.6 meters) (From main deck to keel bottom)
  Draft 12 feet (3.6 meters)
  Construction Molded steel hull
  Main Propulsion Two General Motors (EMD) 12-645E6A diesel engines, combined 2,900 horsepower, with Lufkin gears and LIPS controllable pitch propellers
  Auxiliary Propulsion One 425-horsepower White Gill water jet stern thruster, driven by 8V71 turbo-intercooled (TI) Detroit diesel engine
  Maneuvering One 425-horsepower Schottel bow thruster, driven by 8V71 turbo-intercooled (TI) Detroit diesel engine
  Ship's Power Two 166-kilowatt Kato generators and one 4-kilowatt Kohler emergency generator
  Towing pull: 60,000 pounds (30 tons or 27,216 kilograms)
  Displacement 1,052 tons (955 metric tons)
  Normal Cruising Speed 15 knots (17 miles/28 kilometers per hour)
  Range 6,900 miles (11,104 kilometers)
  Endurance Food and water for 30 days
  Complement 10 crew and 10-person retrieval team, plus observers.  Total berthing:  24 persons
  Retrieval
Support
Equipment

 

Primary and backup Diver-Operated Plug and associated dewatering gear, one Quincy QR100 air-cooled, two-stage air compressor (for nozzle plug operation); 
One Model 410 Hallmark-Prentice deck crane, five-ton (4.5 metric ton) capacity (for frustum retrieval);
Four parachute reels;
  One towing winch and one H-bit (for securing tow line) for towing one SRB casing with nozzle;
SRB casing with nozzle;
One air hose reel

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