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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7) |
| Namesake | Mount Rainier |
| Operator | Military Sealift Command |
| Ordered | 3 November 1988 |
| Builder | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company San Diego, California |
| Laid down | 31 May 1990 |
| Launched | 28 September 1991 |
| Commissioned | 21 January 1995 |
| Decommissioned | 28 August 2003 |
| In service | 29 August 2003 |
| Out of service | 1 October 2016 |
| Stricken | 15 September 2022[1] |
| Identification |
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| Motto | The Legend Of Service |
| Status | Stricken |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Supply class |
| Displacement | 48,800 long tons (49,600 t) |
| Length | 754.6 ft (230.0 m) |
| Beam | 107 ft (33 m) |
| Draught | 39 ft (12 m) |
| Installed power | 105,000 hp (78 MW) |
| Propulsion | four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines, Two Propellers |
| Speed | 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph) |
| Complement | 176 civilians, 30 military |
| Aircraft carried | Two CH-46E Sea Knight or MH-60S Seahawk helicopters |
USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7), is a Supply-class fast combat support ship and the third US Navy vessel named after Mount Rainier. The ship was christened on 28 September 1991 by the ship's sponsor, Mrs. Suzanne Callison Dicks, wife of Congressman Norm Dicks, and commissioned as "USS Rainier (AOE-7)", on 21 January 1995 at Bremerton, Washington.
Rainier has the speed to keep up with the Navy's carrier strike groups (CSG) and rapidly replenish Navy task forces. She receives petroleum products, ammunition and stores from shuttle ships or during port calls and redistributes these items simultaneously to CSG ships. This reduces the vulnerability of serviced ships by reducing alongside time.
In April 2013, it was announced that the Military Sealift Command will take Rainier and her sister USNS Bridge (T-AOE-10) out of service in 2014 as a cost-saving measure.
The fast combat support ship Rainier, which was last part of the Navy's civilian-crewed Military Sealift Command's fleet of combat logistics ships and being held in reserve in Bremerton, Washington since 1 October 2016.[2] On 15 September 2022, she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.[1]
- ^ a b "Rainier (AOE 7)". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
- ^ "Bremerton's mothball fleet will shrink in stature once Kitty Hawk departs". Kitsap Sun. Retrieved 2018-04-22.