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USS Kansas City (AOR-3)

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USS Kansas City (AOR-3)
History
United States
NameUSS Kansas City
NamesakeKansas City, Missouri
Awarded6 July 1966
BuilderGeneral Dynamics, Quincy, Massachusetts[1]
Laid down20 April 1968[1]
Launched28 June 1969[1]
Commissioned6 June 1970[1]
Decommissioned7 October 1994[2]
StrickenJuly 1997[2]
IdentificationIMO number8644096
Honours and
awards
Meritorious Unit Commendation and 3 campaign stars (Vietnam)
FateBroken up at All Star Metals Brownsville Texas 2013
General characteristics
Class and typeWichita-class replenishment oiler
Displacement40,100 long tons (40,743 t) full
Length659 ft (201 m)
Beam96 ft (29 m)
Draft35 ft (11 m)
Propulsion3 × boilers, steam turbines, 2 × shafts, 32,000 shp (23,862 kW)
Speed20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement22 officers, 398 enlisted
Armament
  • 2 × Phalanx CIWS
  • 4 x Mk2 50 cal machine guns fore and aft 2 x m60 machine gun forward
  • 1 × Mark 29 Sea Sparrow missile launcher
Aircraft carried2 × CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters

USS Kansas City (AOR-3) was the third of the Wichita-class replenishment oilers. She was the second ship to be named for the city of Kansas City, Missouri.

The keel was laid on 18 April 1968 at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, and the ship was launched on 1 June 1969. The ship was commissioned on 6 June 1970 and saw service in the Vietnam War and Gulf Wars. Subsequently, the ship was decommissioned on 7 October 1994, and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 8 April 1997. In 2013 she was broken up at All Star Metals, Brownsville, Texas .[3]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Prézelin and Baker 1990, p. 836.
  2. ^ a b Baker 1998, p. 1056.
  3. ^ "USS Kansas City (AOR 3)". Navysite.de. Retrieved 29 September 2008.