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Updated! 7/5/08
   
 

USS Wabash AOR-5 Details
   
  ♫Wabash Cannonball♫
     
 
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
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    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
         
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