USNSMount Baker
 USNSMount Baker(T-AE-34)
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USNSMount Baker(T-AE-34) |
| Namesake | Mount Baker |
| Awarded | 8 March 1968[1] |
| Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding[1] |
| Laid down | 5 October 1970[1] |
| Launched | 23 October 1971[1] |
| Commissioned | 22 July 1972[1] |
| Decommissioned | 18 December 1996[1] |
| In service | 18 December 1996 |
| Out of service | 2 August 2010[2] |
| Identification | IMO number:8937053 |
| Fate | Scrapped 2012 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Kilauea-classammunition ship |
| Displacement | 20,000 tons (20,300 t) full load |
| Length | 564.3 ft (172.0 m) overall |
| Beam | 81 ft (25 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Propulsion | ThreeFoster-Wheelerboilers; 600 psi (42kg/cm²,4.2MPa); 870 °F (470 °C); 1 turbine, 22,000 hp (16.4 MW); single six-bladed propeller; Automated Propulsion System (APS) |
| Speed | 20 knots |
| Capacity | 60,000 ft3/6,000 tons of ammunition |
| Complement | 125 civilians, 55 naval personnel (including a helicopter detachment) |
| Aircraft carried | TwoCH-46helicopters |
| Aviation facilities | Hangar and landing pad |
USNSMount Baker(T-AE-34)was the seventh of eightKilauea-classammunition ships.She served in theUnited States Navyfrom 1972 to 1996 and with theMilitary Sealift Commandfrom 1996 to 2010. She was scrapped in 2012.
History
[edit]She is the second U.S. Navy ship to bear the name, and is named forMount Baker,a 10,781-foot volcano in theCascade RangeofWashington.Ammunition ships operated by Military Sealift Command provide logistic support to US Navy ships at sea.
USS Mount Baker (AE-34)
[edit]Mount Bakerwas built byIngalls Shipbuilding,Pascagoula, Mississippi.She was commissioned 22 July 1972 as USSMount Baker(AE-34) and entered service with theAtlantic Fleet.
In 1976, theChief of Naval Operationsauthorized the testing of theLAMPS MK III Systemaboard her flight deck. Later that year,Mount Bakergave support to rescue operations of the Navy's nuclear-powered submersible (NR-1). In 1977, she was awarded theBattle Eas the best ammunition ship in the Atlantic Fleet.
USNS Mount Baker (T-AE-34)
[edit]On 18 December 1996,Mount Bakerdecommissioned and was placed in service with the Military Sealift Command. The ship's designation was changed toT-AE-34.Previously, she provided ammunition onload and offload support to U.S. Navy ships operating in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean.
On 20 July 2009, the Navy announced that the ship would be inactivated on 2 August 2010.[2]She was laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia, PA, waiting to besunk as a target,but she was apparently sold for scrapping c. June 2012 and towed toBrownsville, Texas,for dismantling, circa 7 July 2012.[3]
References
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Media related toIMO 8937053at Wikimedia Commons
- ^abcdef"Mount Baker".Naval Vessel Register.Retrieved18 November2010.
- ^abScutro, Andrew (23 July 2009)."Subs, frigate on list of ships being retired".Military Times.Retrieved18 November2010.
- ^"USNS Mount Baker (T-AE-34)".20 July 2012.Retrieved3 December2012.