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Name | USS Detroit |
Namesake | Detroit, Michigan |
Ordered | 29 December 1965 |
Builder | Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington |
Laid down | 29 November 1966 |
Launched | 21 June 1969 |
Commissioned | 28 March 1970 |
Decommissioned | 17 February 2005 |
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Fate | Scrapped at ESCO Marine, Brownsville, TX. Scrapping complete November 3, 2006 |
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Class and type | Sacramento-class fast combat support ship |
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Length | 796 ft (243 m) |
Beam | 107 ft (33 m) |
Draft | 38 ft (12 m) |
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Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
Complement | 34 officers and 602 enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | Two CH-46E Sea Knight or MH-60S Seahawk helicopters |
USS Detroit (AOE-4) was the fourth and last Sacramento-class fast combat support ship built for the United States Navy. She was laid down on 29 November 1966 by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington; launched 21 June 1969; and commissioned on 28 March 1970. She is the fifth United States Navy ship named after Detroit, Michigan, the largest city in the state of Michigan, and the river of the same name.
Detroit served for 35 years operating primarily with the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf regions.