USNS Concord (T-AFS-5), June 2007
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Concord |
Namesake | Concord, Massachusetts, location of the Battle of Concord |
Ordered | 18 December 1964 |
Builder | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company |
Laid down | 26 March 1966 |
Launched | 17 December 1966 |
Acquired | 21 November 1968 |
Commissioned | 17 November 1968 as USS Concord (AFS-5) |
Decommissioned | 15 October 1992 |
In service | 15 October 1992 |
Out of service | 18 August 2009 |
Reclassified | USNS Concord (T-AFS-5) |
Stricken | 18 August 2009 |
Fate | Sunk as a target, 17 July 2012 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Mars class combat stores ship |
Displacement | 9,200 tons (light) 15,900-18,663 tons (full) |
Length | 581 ft (177 m) |
Beam | 79 ft (24 m) |
Draft | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
Propulsion | 3 × 580psi Babcock & Wilcox boilers, one De Laval turbine, single shaft |
Speed | 20 knots |
Complement | Officers: 48; enlisted: 441 |
Armament | 2 × twin 3 in (76 mm) gun mounts |
Armor | 3.15 in |
Aircraft carried | 2 × UH-46 Sea Knight helicopters |
USS Concord (AFS-5), was a Mars-class combat stores ship, in service with the United States Navy from 1968 to 1992. Concord became the first of five ships of its class to be transferred to Military Sealift Command. The transfer was completed in October 1992 and she was redesignated USNS Concord (T-AFS-5). Concord was stricken in August 2009 and sunk as a target in 2012.