Name RFA Lyness Yard number 2016 Commissioned 22 December 1966 Construction started 7 July 1965 Length 175 m | Ordered 7 December 1964 Laid down 7 July 1965 Identification Pennant number A339 Launched 7 April 1966 Builder Swan Hunter | |
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RFA Lyness was a fleet stores ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
On 15 November 1980, the ship was acquired by charter by the United States Military Sealift Command and renamed USNS Sirius (T-AFS 8). She was purchased outright on 1 March 1982. On 1 July 2005, she was renamed Texas Clipper III and was transferred to the United States Maritime Administration to become the Texas Maritime Academy's new training ship.
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