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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Nitro (AE-23) |
| Builder | Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
| Laid down | 20 May 1957 |
| Launched | 25 June 1958 |
| Commissioned | 1 May 1959 |
| Decommissioned | 28 April 1995 |
| Stricken | 14 August 1995 |
| Fate | Scrapped in Brownsville Texas |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Nitro-class ammunition ship |
| Displacement | 8,300 tons |
| Length | 512 ft (156 m) |
| Beam | 72 ft (22 m) |
| Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Speed | 20 knots |
| Complement | 331 |
| Armament | 4 x 3 in (76 mm) guns |
USS Nitro (AE–23), an ammunition ship in the U.S. Navy, was laid down by Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point Shipyard at Baltimore, Maryland, on 20 May 1957 and launched on 25 June 1958. It was sponsored by Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Bunting Pate, the wife of General Randolph M. Pate, and commissioned on 1 May 1959.