Name Rising Star Homeport Thule, Greenland Launched 1991 Builder Morgan City | In service 1991 Length 22 m | |
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Installed power 900 shaft horsepower (670 kW) Place built Morgan City, Louisiana, United States | ||
The Rising Star is a tugboat operated by the United States Air Force to assist cargo vessels supplying its Thule AFB, in northern Greenland. The tugboat is operated during the less than three months the port is ice-free. For the remainder of the year the vessel is pulled up on the beach.
Built in 1991, the Rising Star is 71 feet (22 m) long. She is powered by two two-stroke diesel engines, capable of generating 900 shaft horsepower (670 kW) each. She was built at the Swiftships yard in Morgan City, Louisiana.
The Rising Star is the US Air Force's only tugboat.
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