USS Mount Hood (AE-29)
.jpg) Mount Hood heading out of San Diego Bay on September 30, 1997 |
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| Career (US) |  |
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| Name: | Mount Hood (AE-29) |
| Namesake: | Mount Hood |
| Awarded: | January 28, 1966 |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
| Laid down: | May 8, 1967 |
| Launched: | July 17, 1968 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Robert A. Frosch |
| Commissioned: | May 1, 1971 |
| Decommissioned: | August 10, 1999 |
| Struck: | August 10, 1999 |
| Motto: | Arma Pro Armada |
| Nickname: | "The Good Hood" |
| Status: | Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Kilauea-class ammunition ship |
| Displacement: | Light: 10,312 tons Full load: 18,664 tons |
| Length: | 564 ft (172 m) |
| Beam: | 81 ft (25 m) |
| Draft: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | 3 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 600 psi; 870°F; 1 turbine, 22,000 hp; Automated Propulsion System (APS); One six-bladed propeller |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 28 officers 390 enlisted |
| Armament: | 50 cal., 20mm Chain Gun |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters |
USS Mount Hood (AE-29) was a Kilauea-class ammunition ship in the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship named after Mount Hood, a volcano in the Cascade Range in Oregon.
Mount Hood was laid down 8 May 1967 by Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Sparrows Point, Maryland; launched 17 July 1968; sponsored by Mrs. Robert A. Frosch, wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development; and was commissioned on May 1, 1971. She was homeported in Concord, California.
Unlike her seven sister ships of the Kilauea class, she was never transferred to the Military Sealift Command. She was decommissioned in August 1999 and held in reserve at Bremerton, Washington before being moved in October 1999 to Suisun Bay, California where she presently remains.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- 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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