Monongahela in Italy, 1986
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Monongahela (AO-178) |
Namesake | Monongahela River |
Builder | Avondale Shipyards |
Laid down | 15 August 1978 |
Launched | 4 August 1979 |
Commissioned | 5 September 1981 |
Decommissioned | 30 September 1999 |
Stricken | 30 September 1999 |
Identification | IMO number: 7638545 |
Fate | Scrapped 31 March 2016 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Cimarron class fleet oiler |
Displacement | 36,977 tons full load |
Length | 708 ft (216 m) |
Beam | 88 ft (27 m) |
Draft | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
Propulsion | two boilers, one steam turbine, single shaft, 24,000shp |
Speed | 20 kn (37 km/h) |
Capacity | 150,000 barrels of fuel oil or aviation fuel and several tons of additional goods |
Complement | 12 officers, 148 enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems | A/N SPS-55 Surface Search Radar |
Armament | 4 x M2HB heavy machine guns |
Aircraft carried | None, but fitted with stern helicopter landing platform |
USS Monongahela (AO-178) was a Cimarron-class fleet replenishment oiler commissioned in the United States Navy from 1981 to 1999.