USS Santa Barbara (AE-28)

Santa Barbara in 1992
History
United States
Name	Santa Barbara
Namesake	Santa Barbara, California
Awarded	26 January 1966[1]
Builder	Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard[1]
Laid down	20 December 1966[1]
Launched	23 January 1968[1]
Sponsored by	Mrs. Graeme C. Bannerman
Commissioned	11 July 1970[1]
Decommissioned	30 September 1998[1]
In service	Transferred to Military Sealift Command, 30 September 1998
Stricken	3 August 2005[1]
Motto	Nos Numerus Unus ("We are number one")
Fate	Sold for scrap 2007[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	Kilauea-class ammunition ship
Displacement	10,417 long tons (10,584 t) light 18,088 long tons (18,378 t) full loaded
Length	564 ft (172 m)
Beam	81 ft (25 m)
Draft	27 ft 7 in (8.41 m)
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)

USS Santa Barbara (AE-28) was an Kilauea-class ammunition ship in the United States Navy. Santa Barbara is both the name of Santa Barbara, California and a historically active volcano on Terceira Island in the Azores. In addition, Saint Barbara is the patron saint of those who work with cannons and explosives.

Santa Barbara was laid down on 30 December 1966 at the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard in Sparrows Point, Maryland; launched on 23 January 1968; sponsored by Mrs. Graeme C. Bannerman, the wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Logistics; and commissioned on 11 July 1970.