USS Seattle (AOE-3)

History
United States
Name	USS Seattle
Namesake	Seattle, Washington
Laid down	1 October 1965
Launched	1 March 1968
Commissioned	5 April 1969
Decommissioned	15 March 2005
Stricken	15 March 2005
Motto	"Beans, Bullets & Oil"
Fate	Scrapped at ESCO Marine, Brownsville, TX. Scrapping complete 26 January 2007
General characteristics
Class and type	Sacramento-class fast combat support ship
Displacement	18,884 long tons (19,187 t) light 54,000 long tons (54,867 t) full
Length	796 ft (243 m)
Beam	107 ft (33 m)
Draft	38 ft (12 m)
Propulsion	2 × steam turbines, 2 × shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)+
Capacity	Fuel Oil: 5.2 m gal (19.7 m L) Aviation fuel (JP-5): 2.7 m gal (10.2 m L)
Complement	34 officers and 602 enlisted
Armament	2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 guns 1 × 8 cell NATO Sea Sparrow Mark 29 missile launcher 1 × 25 mm automatic cannon 4 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns
Aircraft carried	2 × CH-46A/D Sea Knight helicopters

The second USS Seattle (AOE-3), a Sacramento-class fast combat support ship, was laid down on 1 October 1965, at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington; launched on 2 March 1968; sponsored by Mrs. William M. Allen, chairman of the board of the Children's Orthopedic Hospital Association, Seattle; and commissioned on 5 April 1969.

After fitting out, Seattle departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 24 September 1969, en route to Norfolk. Seattle visited Long Beach, San Diego, Acapulco, the Panama Canal, and New Orleans, arriving at Norfolk, her designated home port, on 22 November.