Suribachi-class ammunition ship
.jpg) USS Suribachi | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Suribachi class |
| Builders: | Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard |
| Operators: |
 United States Navy |
| Built: | 1955–1957 |
| In commission: | 1956–1995 |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Retired: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Ammunition ship |
| Displacement: | 9,758 long tons (9,915 t) light 15,688 long tons (15,940 t) full |
| Length: | 512 ft (156 m) |
| Beam: | 72 ft (22 m) |
| Draft: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × boilers Steam turbines Single shaft 16,000 shp (11,931 kW) |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 344 |
| Armament: | • 4 × twin 3"/50 caliber guns |
| Aviation facilities: | Helicopter landing pad |
The Suribachi-class ammunition ships are a class of two auxiliary vessels of the United States Navy. They were among the first specialized underway replenishment ships built after the Second World War. The Nitro-class ammunition ships are sometimes considered part of this class.
Mauna Kea was used for target practice in 2006, and Suribachi was scrapped in the summer of 2009.
Units
| Ship Name | Hull No. | Builder | Commission– Decommission |
Fate | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suribachi | AE-21 | Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard | 1956–1994 | Sold for scrapping, 2009 | |
| Mauna Kea | AE-22 | Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard | 1957–1995 | Sunk as target during RIMPAC, 12 July 2006 | |
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