USS Kalamazoo in underway replenishment with USS Saratoga. |
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| Name: | USS Kalamazoo |
| Namesake: | Kalamazoo, Michigan |
| Builder: | General Dynamics Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 1 October 1970 |
| Launched: | 1 November 1972 |
| Commissioned: | 11 August 1973, as USS Kalamazoo (AOR-6) |
| Decommissioned: | 16 August 1996 |
| Struck: | 29 October 1998 |
| Honors and awards: |
Joint Meritorious Unit Award |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 15 July 2008, for $1,465,726 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Wichita-class replenishment oiler |
| Displacement: | 14,048 long tons (14,273 t) light 39,790 long tons (40,429 t) full |
| Length: | 659 ft (201 m) |
| Beam: | 96 ft (29 m) |
| Draft: | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Propulsion: | 3 × boilers, 2 × steam turbines, 2 × shafts, 32,000 shp (23,862 kW) |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 34 officers, 463 enlisted |
| Armament: | • 2 × Phalanx CIWS • 1 × Sea Sparrow missile system (NSSMS) |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 × CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters |
| Aviation facilities: | Helo Deck and berthing for 8 Airdet Personnel |
USS Kalamazoo (AOR-6) was a Wichita-class replenishment oiler commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1973. She continued to support Navy requirements until 1996 when she was placed in the reserve fleet and later struck.
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Kalamazoo was laid down on 1 October 1970 and launched on 1 November 1972 at the shipyard of the General Dynamics Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts. On 11 August 1973 she was commissioned USS Kalamazoo (AOR-6) and placed into service for the fleet. Her homeport was Norfolk Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia.
AOR-6 Deployments - Major EventsAdd a AOR-6 Shellback Initiation Add a AOR-6 Deployment - Major Event
Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
OCT 1970 Keel Date: 1 OCT 1970 at General Dynamics Corporation Quincy MA: NOV 1972 Launch Date: 1 NOV 1972: AUG 1973 Commissioned: 11 AUG 1973: JAN 1975 - DEC 1975 Marjorie Sterret Battleship Award: APR 1975 - OCT 1975 Blue Nose - Artic Circle: JUL 1976 - JUL 1976 New York Harbor Tall Ships Celebration: APR 1978 - MAY 1979 Regular Overhaul: FEB 1980 - SEP 1980 Mediterranean-Indian Ocean: OCT 1981 - - - Shellback Initiation - 8 OCT 1981 - Atlantic Ocean: OCT 1981 - APR 1982 Mediterranean-West Africa: NOV 1982 - MAY 1983 Mediterranean: DEC 1982 - JUN 1983 OVERHAUL-HOBOKEN N.J.: JAN 1983 - DEC 1984 Mediterranean-Lebanon: JAN 1984 - DEC 1984 Mediterranean-Lebanon: JUN 1986 - SEP 1986 North Atlantic: DEC 1989 - MAY 1990 Mediterranean: DEC 1990 - JUN 1991 Desert Storm: OCT 1992 - APR 1993 Mediterranean: MAR 1993 - JAN 1994 Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf: AUG 1996 Decommissioned: 16 AUG 1996
On 16 August 1996 Kalamazoo was decommissioned and placed in reserve at the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Lee Hall, Virginia. She was struck from the Navy list on 29 October 1998 and, on 15 July 2008, she was sold by the U.S. Maritime Administration to Esco Marine, Brownsville, Texas, for $1,465,726. Kalamazoo was towed out of James River Reserve Fleet on Tuesday September 30, 2008 en route to ESCO Brownsville.[1]
Qualified Kalamazoo personnel were authorized the following:
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