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T-AK-2033 Buyer

Breakbulk Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down in 1961 as Export Buyer a Maritime Administration type (C3-S-46a) hull under Maritime Administration contract (MA 327) at National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA.
  • Launched in 1961
  • Delivered to the Maritime Administration in 1961 for operation by the American Export Lines
  • Name changed to Buyer (date unknown)
  • Reacquired by the Maritime Administration and laid up in reserve as part of the Maritime Administrations National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • When activated Buyer (T-AK-2033) was assigned to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) as one of the Military Sealift Command's Modular Cargo Delivery System Ready Reserve Force (RRF) Ships
  • When not activated Buyer was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet Beaumont, TX. and could be activated as needed
  • Activate for Destert Storm, 1 February 1991 to 8 December 1992
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping at Brownsville, TX., 6 March 2008
    Specifications:
    Displacement 10,650 t.(lt)
    Length unknown
    Beam unknown
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Full Operating Complement unknown
    Propulsion steam turbine, single propeller
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    Buyer 61k Buyer (T-AK-2033) moored pierside at her layberth in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, date unknown. Maritime Administration
    Buyer 68k Buyer (T-AK-2033) activated and moored pierside while discharging cargo, date and place unknown. Maritime Administration
    Buyer
    0913203303     		1368k Racks of ordnance line the pier beside Buyer (T-AK-2033)> prior to being loaded aboard the vessel. Ordnance and equipment were removed from Naval Station Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines, as the U.S. Navy prepares to close the station and relinquish it to the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, 14 August 1992.
    US Navy photo by PH1 R. Wilcox, US National Archives Identifier (NAID) 6485331, Local ID: 330-CFD-DN-ST-93-00664.    		 John Spivey
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