USS Sacramento (AOE1)

Specifications:

Displacement 18,884 t.(lt) 49,956 t.(fl);
Length 793'
Beam 107'
Draft 38' (max.)
Speed 26 kts.
Complement 22 Officers, 530 Enlisted
Aircraft two CH46E Sea Knight helicopters
Armament NATO Sparrow missiles, two twin 40mm gun mounts, replaced by two Phalanx CIWS
Propulsion four boilers, two geared steam turbines, two shafts, 100,000shp

Sacramento Class, Fast Combat Support Ship:

Laid down, 30 June 1961, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA.

Launched, 14 September 1963

Commissioned USS Sacramento (AOE-1), 14 March 1964

Sacramento and her sister Camden (AOE-2), are unique in that their propulsion systems were originally installed in

the uncompleted sister to the two Iowa class battleships, Kentucky (BB-66). When it was decided to scrap

Kentucky, the Navy split the propulsion system and installed it in Sacramento and Camden

Sacramento was assigned to the Pacific Fleet, and homeported at Bremerton, WA.

Decommissioned, 1 October 2004, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA.

Laid up at the NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance Office, Bremerton, WA., to be disposed of in support of fleet training exercises

Contact awarded to ESCO Marine, Brownsville, TX., for scrapping, in lieu of use as a target for fleet training, 13 April 2007

Sacramento earned 13 campaign stars for Vietnam War service

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Specifications:
Displacement 18,884 t.(lt) 49,956 t.(fl);
Length 793'
Beam 107'
Draft 38' (max.)
Speed 26 kts.
Complement 22 Officers, 530 Enlisted
Aircraft two CH46E Sea Knight helicopters
Armament NATO Sparrow missiles, two twin 40mm gun mounts, replaced by two Phalanx CIWS
Propulsion four boilers, two geared steam turbines, two shafts, 100,000shp

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