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Kilauea-class ammunition ship

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Three of the eight Kilauea-class ships steaming together: Shasta (left), Kiska (right), Flint (rear) (2005)
Class overview
BuildersGeneral Dynamics, Bethlehem Steel, Ingalls Shipbuilding
OperatorsUS Navy and Military Sealift Command
Preceded byTemplate:Sclass-
Succeeded byTemplate:Sclass-
Built1966–1972
In commission1967–1996
Completed8
Active0
Scrapped3
General characteristics
Typeammunition carrier
Displacement13,688 tons, 20,500 f/l
Length564 feet (172 m)
Beam81 feet (25 m)
Draft29 feet (8.8 m)
Propulsionone GE steam turbine, 22,000 shp; three Foster-Wheeler boilers; single propeller.
Speed20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement411 (USN)/130 (MSC)
Armamentoriginally four twin 3"/50 caliber gun mounts
Aircraft carriedtwo helicopters (UH-46 or MH-60)

The Kilauea class ammunition ship is a class of eight United States Navy cargo vessels designed for underway replenishment of naval warships. The ships were constructed 1968–1972 and were initially commissioned naval ships, carrying a crew of naval personnel. At various dates 1980–96 these ships were decommissioned and transferred to the Military Sealift Command for civilian operation. They were eventually all replaced by the Template:Sclass-s. The lead ship of the class, Kilauea, was commissioned on 10 August 1968, and the last, the Kiska, on 16 December 1972.

Ships
Ship Hull No. Builder Commissioned Transferred to MSC Status NVR link
Kilauea AE-26 General Dynamics, Quincy 1968-08-10 1980-10-01 Stricken, sunk as an exercise target 2012 [1]
Butte AE-27 General Dynamics, Quincy 1968-12-14 1996-06-03 Stricken, sunk as an exercise target 2006 [2]
Santa Barbara AE-28 Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard 1970-07-11 1998-09-30 Stricken, scrapped [3]
Mount Hood AE-29 Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard 1971-05-01 Inactive, out of service, in Reserve [4]
Flint AE-32 Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula 1971-11-20 1995-08-04 Inactive, out of service, in Reserve [5]
Shasta AE-33 Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula 1972-02-26 1997-10-01 Stricken, scrapped commencing in November 2013 [6]
Mount Baker AE-34 Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula 1972-07-22 1996-12-18 Stricken, scrapped [7]
Kiska AE-35 Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula 1972-12-16 1996-08-01 Stricken, to be disposed of by dismantling [8]