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![]() Wichita in the mid-1980s
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Name | USS Wichita |
Namesake | Wichita, Kansas |
Awarded | 2 June 1965 |
Builder | General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division |
Laid down | 16 June 1966 |
Launched | 16 March 1968 |
Commissioned | 7 June 1969 |
Decommissioned | 12 March 1993 |
Stricken | 15 February 1995 |
Identification | IMO number: 8644230 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 2013 |
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Class and type | Wichita-class replenishment oiler |
Displacement | 40,100 long tons (40,743 t) full |
Length | 659 ft (201 m) |
Beam | 96 ft (29 m) |
Draft | 35 ft (11 m) |
Propulsion | 3 × boilers, steam turbines, 2 × shafts, 32,000 shp (23,862 kW) |
Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
Complement | 22 officers, 398 enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters |
Service record | |
Part of: | United States Seventh Fleet |
Operations: | Vietnam War |
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USS Wichita (AOR-1) was the lead ship of the Wichita-class replenishment oilers. She was the second ship to be named for the city of Wichita, Kansas.
The second Wichita (AOR-1) was laid down on 16 June 1966 at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division; launched on 16 March 1968; sponsored by Mrs. Howard B. Yeager; and commissioned on 7 June 1969.