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- Code Number:
- MYNV01P12_02
- Title:
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Supply Ship, Golden Gate Bridge, USS Mars, AFS-1, 21 March 1993
- Mars Class Combat Stores Ship
Laid down: 5 May 1962, at National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California
Launched: 15 June 1963
Commissioned: USS Mars (AFS-1), 1 December 1963
Decommissioned: 1 February 1993 at Naval Station Treasure Island, San Francisco, California., and placed in service by MSC as USNS Mars (T-AFS-1)
Placed out of service: 19 February 1998, and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Maintenance Category B.
Displacement: 9,200 t.(lt) 15,900-18,663 t.(fl).
Length: 581'
Beam: 79'
Draft: 27' (max.)
Speed: 20 knots; Complement (MSC) 49 Navy, 125 civilian merchant seamen
Aircraft: two UH-46 Sea Knight helicopters
Armament: 2x twin 3/50 dual purpose gun mounts
Propulsion: three 580 psi Babcock and Wilcox boilers
- Keywords:
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Golden Gate Bridge, Suspension Bridge, GGB, Landmark, coastal, PCH, Navy, Military, Armament, Killingry, Weaponry, warfare, Naval, Weapon, Maritime, History, Archives, Historic, Armed Force
- Image by:
- Wernher Krutein
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