 SSChesapeake (AOT-584) | |
| History | |
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| Name | SSChesapeake |
| Namesake | Chesapeake Bay |
| Builder | Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point Yard |
| Launched | 18 August 1964 |
| Completed | 29 October 1964 |
| Acquired | 15 December 1987 (byMaritime Administration |
| In service | 2000 with Military Sealift Command |
| Out of service | 3 February 2009 |
| Renamed | SSChesapeake 22 July 1980 (used to be SS Hess Voyager) |
| Stricken | 30 November 2020 |
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| Fate | Scrapped 2021 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type | Transport oiler |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 736 ft (224 m) |
| Beam | 102 ft (31 m) |
| Draft | 39 ft (12 m) maximum |
| Installed power | 15,000 horsepower (11.2 megawatts) |
| Propulsion | Two Combustion Engineering boilers, two Bethlehem turbines, one shaft |
| Speed | 14knots) |
| Capacity | 257,000 barrels (40,900 m3) of fuel oil |
| Complement | 37 |
| Armament | None |
| Notes | The ship's integral offshore petroleum discharge system (OPDS) allows her to discharge her entire cargo from up to 4 nautical miles (7.4 kilometers) off shore |
The SSChesapeake is a transport oiler that was in service with the United States Navy from 2000 to 2009. She was operated by Military Sealift Command.
SSChesapeake was built by the Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point Yard at Baltimore, Maryland, and delivered to the Hess Shipping Company on 29 October 1964. She entered commercial service with the company as the tankerSSHess Voyager. She was renamed SS Chesapeake on 22 July 1980. She is a near exact twin to her sister ship SSPetersburg.
The U.S. Maritime Administration relieved Hess Shipping of Chesapeake under an exchange program on 15 December 1987. Chesapeake was then laid up in the Maritime Administration's Ready Reserve Fleet until 2000.
Chesapeake was activated for service in the Military Sealift Command in 2000 as a transport oiler. Interocean Ugland Management CorporationofVoorhees, New Jersey, operates her with a civilian crew under contract to Military Sealift Command as a Common User Tanker as SS Chesapeake (AOT-5084).
Other OPDS tankers are the SS American Osprey, SSPetersburg, and the SSMount Washington. Chesapeake was removed from service in 2009 and was scrapped on 19 April 2021 at Brownsville.
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.|
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