Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Kawishiwi was decommissioned on 10 October 1979, and placed in service with Military Sealift Command as USNS Kawishiwi (T-AO-146), continuing her service with a civilian crew. Additionally, a Military Detachment (MilDet) of approximately twenty sailors was aboard to handle communication and repair of electronic equipment.
USS : 324; USNS : 106 Civilian mariners, 21 Navy; ... AO-146 / T-AO-146 Kawishiwi: 5 October 1953 11 December 1954 6 July 1955 September 1992 AO-147 / T-AO-147
From a page move: This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed).This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.
Sara Thompson, 2690/5840 tons, was also British-built, in 1888 as the SS Gut Heil, and was purchased in 1917. Robert L. Barnes, a 1630/3850-ton Great Lakes tanker, was built in 1914 and purchased in 1918. With the advent of the Navy's new hull-numbering system in 1920 they were designated AO-8 and AO-14.
USS Hassayampa was a Neosho -class fleet replenishment oiler in service with the United States Navy, and the United States Merchant Marine from 1955 to 1991. A veteran of the Vietnam and First Gulf War, she served for 36 years before being laid up in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in California. Her keel was laid on 13 July 1953.
Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. Coordinates: 38°4′24.12″N 122°5′23.82″W. Ships of the reserve fleet, Suisun Bay, c. 2001. Battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) is 2nd row from the bottom (moored at the Port of Los Angeles since 2012 as the USS Iowa Museum.) The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet colloquially known as the mothball fleet, is located on the ...
USS Truckee (AO-147) was a Neosho-class fleet oiler of the United States Navy in service from 1955 to 1994. The ship was named after the Truckee River in the U.S. states of California and Nevada . Truckee was laid down in December 1953 at Camden, New Jersey , by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation and launched on 19 March 1955.
USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed "Lady Lex", [1] was the name ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser, she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, which essentially terminated all new battleship and ...