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updtated
10/26/08
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USS Wabash AOR-5
Details
♫ Wabash Cannonball
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Wichita Class Replenishment
Oilier:
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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
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USS
Wabash AOR - 5