USNS Mount Baker (T-AE-34)
| |
History | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Name | USNS Mount 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-class ammunition 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 | Three Foster-Wheeler boilers; 600 psi (42 kg/cm², 4.2 MPa); 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 | Two CH-46 helicopters |
Aviation facilities | Hangar and landing pad |
USNS Mount Baker (T-AE-34) was the seventh of eight Kilauea-class ammunition ships. She served in the United States Navy from 1972 to 1996 and with the Military Sealift Command from 1996 to 2010. She was scrapped in 2012.