USS Kansas City (AOR-3)

USS Kansas City (AOR-3)

History
United States
Name	USS Kansas City
Namesake	Kansas City, Missouri
Awarded	6 July 1966
Builder	General Dynamics, Quincy, Massachusetts[1]
Laid down	20 April 1968[1]
Launched	28 June 1969[1]
Commissioned	6 June 1970[1]
Decommissioned	7 October 1994[2]
Stricken	July 1997[2]
Identification	IMO number: 8644096
Honours and awards	Meritorious Unit Commendation and 3 campaign stars (Vietnam)
Fate	Broken up at All Star Metals Brownsville Texas 2013
General characteristics
Class and type	Wichita-class replenishment oiler
Displacement	40,100 long tons (40,743 t) full
Length	659 ft (201 m)
Beam	96 ft (29 m)
Draft	35 ft (11 m)
Propulsion	3 × boilers, steam turbines, 2 × shafts, 32,000 shp (23,862 kW)
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	22 officers, 398 enlisted
Armament	2 × Phalanx CIWS 4 x Mk2 50 cal machine guns fore and aft 2 x m60 machine gun forward 1 × Mark 29 Sea Sparrow missile launcher
Aircraft carried	2 × CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters

USS Kansas City (AOR-3) was the third of the Wichita-class replenishment oilers. She was the second ship to be named for the city of Kansas City, Missouri.

The keel was laid on 18 April 1968 at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, and the ship was launched on 1 June 1969. The ship was commissioned on 6 June 1970 and saw service in the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm. Subsequently, the ship was decommissioned on 7 October 1994, and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 8 April 1997. In 2013 she was broken up at All Star Metals, Brownsville, Texas .^[3]

Awards[]

• Navy Unit Commendation (Battle Group Echo in Operation Desert Storm)
• Meritorious Unit Commendation
• National Defense Service Medal with star
• Vietnam Campaign Medal with three battle stars
• Southwest Asia Service Medal

References[]

• Photo gallery of Kansas City at NavSource Naval History
• USS Kansas City (AOR-3)
• Baker, A.D. (1998). The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World 1998–1999. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-111-4.
• Prézelin, Bernard; Baker, A.D. (1990). The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World 1990/1991. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-250-8.
• Wildenberg, Thomas (1996). Gray Steel and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea in the U.S. Navy, 1912–1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. Retrieved 28 April 2009.

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