USS Flint (AE-32)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Flint.

USNS Flint (T-AE-32)
History
United States
NameUSS Flint
Awarded8 March 1968
BuilderIngalls Shipbuilding
Laid down4 August 1969
Launched9 November 1970
Acquired30 August 1971
Commissioned20 November 1971
Decommissioned4 August 1995
In serviceTransferred to Military Sealift Command 4 August 1995
Identification
Motto
  • Judicemur Agendo
  • ("Let us be judged by our deeds")
FateSold for scrap 24 November 2015[1]
General characteristics
Class and typeKilauea-class ammunition ship
Displacement
  • 11,915 long tons (12,106 t) light
  • 20,169 long tons (20,493 t) fully loaded
Length564 ft (172 m)
Beam81 ft (25 m)
Draft29 ft (8.8 m)
Speed20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement28 officers and 375 enlisted

USS Flint (AE-32/T-AE-32) is a Kilauea-class ammunition ship of the United States Navy, and was named after the sparking rock flint (not, as is commonly thought, the city of Flint, Michigan).[2] Flint was constructed at the Ingalls Nuclear Shipbuilding Division, Litton Industries, Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi. The ship was delivered to the United States Navy at Charleston, South Carolina, on 30 August 1971.

  1. ^ "National Defense Reserve Fleet Inventory For the Month Ending September 30, 2016" (PDF). National Defense Reserve Fleet Inventory For the Month Ending September 30, 2016. MARAD. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  2. ^ US ammunition ships are named either for volcanoes, or words related to fire such as Nitro and Pyro