This website is here to help provide a way for shipmates of the USS Wabash AOR-5 to keep in touch with one another, and to share stories and pictures of their lives. If you have anything you would like to see on this site please contact us.
Mission Statement : "To nurture and maintain enduring friendships formed in the caldron of military service; and, as civilians, to influence our fellow citizens to the high levels of camaraderie, idealism, patriotism and good will commonly found amongst those who have so served".
Wichita Class Replenishment Oilier:
- Laid down, 1 January 1970, at General Dynamics Corp., Qunicy, MA.
- Launched, 1 February 1971
- Commissioned USS Wabash (AOR-5), 20 November 1971
- Decommissioned, 30 September 1994
- Struck from the Naval Register, 8 April 1997
- Title transfer to MARAD, 18 December 1998
- Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
- Final Disposition, fate unknown
Specifications:
- Displacement 14,048 t.(lt) 39,790 t.(fl)
- Length 659'
- Beam 96'
- Draft 37' (max.)
- Speed 20 kts.
- Complement 34 Officers, 463 Enlisted
- Armament two Phalanx Close-In-Weapons System (CIWS), Sparrow Missile System (NSSMS)
- Aircraft two CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters
- Propulsion three boilers, two steam turbines, twin shafts, 32,000shp
