[Strategerist]

The problem is other than being haze gray Rappahanock doesn’t look like a naval vessel.

[msc164]

U.S.N.S. stands for United States Navel Ship. It is not owned by the Navy, but by the government. Some of the older ships were once operated by the Navy, but were decommissioned and given to MSC/Military Sealift Command out of Virginia, if I remember.