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Willamette replaced USS Ashtabula in the Pacific Fleet. The ship's mission was to transport and deliver bulk petroleum products, and limited fleet freight, mail, and personnel to combatant and support ships underway. Willamette was the first ship of the class to be protected by two MK 15 Phalanx Weapon Systems. Extensive damage control ...
USS Willamette has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to: USS Willamette (1865) , a sloop-of-war or frigate cancelled in 1866 before her keel was laid USS Willamette (AO-180) , a fleet replenishment oiler in commission from 1982 to 1999
USS Willamette was a proposed United States Navy screw sloop-of-war or steam frigate that was cancelled in 1866 without ever having been laid down.. Willamette was a wooden-hulled bark-rigged [1] (or ship-rigged [2]) Contoocook-class screw sloop-of-war [1] or steam frigate [2] with a single funnel slated to be built for the Union Navy late in the American Civil War.
USS Jason (AR-8) was the fourth of the Vulcan class repair ship of the United States Navy in service from 1944 to 1995, serving in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War. At the time of her decommissioning , Jason was (with the exception of USS Constitution ) the oldest ship in continual commission in the United States Navy, and the ...
USNS Salvor stands by as boats guide NASA's Orion crew module towards the well deck of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage. Salvor conducted recovery tests of the Orion spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean from 11–12 September 2014, before handing off the capsule to USS Anchorage on 15 September, for another round of ...
Became USS Betelgeuse. In August 1967 collision with the submarine USS Simon Bolivar, repaired. 11 SS Atchison Victory: VC2-S-AP3 17 February 1944: 22 April 1944: 8 June 1944: 12 SS Joplin Victory: VC2-S-AP3 24 February 1944: 25 April 1944: 15 June 1944: 13 SS Lincoln Victory: VC2-S-AP3 26 February 1944
USS Conecuh (AO/AOR-110) The first ship to carry the AOR-designation was USS Conecuh, which was acquired as a war prize in 1946. She was the former German tanker Dithmarschen, and she served in the US Navy from 1953 through 1956, where she was used to test the concept of the AOE/AOR.
Accompanying Nimitz were USS Port Royal (CG-73), USS Callaghan (DD 994), USS Oldendorf (DD 972), USS Ford (FFG-54), USS Willamette (AO 180), USS Shasta (AE 33) and USS Portsmouth (SSN-707). [16] Aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 9 were embarked aboard Nimitz. Nimitz and six additional ships arrived near Taiwan before 23 March 1996 presidential ...