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Ship History:
The current training ship is the third training ship in the Academy’s 44 year history.  The ship made her Maiden Voyage to Galveston in June 2005.  The USNS Sirius was recently decommissioned as one of three combat stores ships that performed underway replenishments for the United States Navy all over the world and most recently in the Persian Gulf.

The ship was originally built in Great Britain as a Royal Navy replenishment ship, and later acquired by the U.S. Navy due to increased logistic demands created by maintaining two carrier battle groups in the Indian Ocean during the Iranian hostage crisis.

The ship is 524’ long; the current training ship is considerably larger than her two predecessors.  She has a top speed of 20 knots and displaces about 16,800 tons.  She will serve the Academy well for the years of growth ahead.

Namesake:
The name Texas Clipper was given to the first Texas Maritime Academy training ship in 1965 when the Academy was first formed.  The original ship had a rounded stern, like a Clipper ship, and so the ship bore the name of Texas Clipper.

At Texas A&M, if you do something once, it becomes tradition, so the training ships since then have borne the same name.  Students, former students, faculty and staff have participated in naming each replacement ship and have opted to retain the venerable name Texas Clipper.

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