Please report any broken links or trouble you might come across to the Webmaster. Please take a moment to let us know so that we can correct any problems and make your visit as enjoyable and as informative as possible.

NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

USNS SGT. Matej Kocak (T-AK-3005)
ex
SS SGT. Matej Kocak (AK-3005)

SGT Matej Kocak Class Maritime Prepositioning Ship:

Built by Sun Ship Building Co. Chester, PA. as SS John B. Waterman a Maritime Administration type (C7-S-133a) hull under Maritime Administration contract (MC hull 346)

Delivered to the Maritime Administration, 23 March 1983, for operation by the Waterman Steamship Corp.

Acquired by the Navy under a long-term charter in 1984

Converted by National Steel and Shipbuilding, San Diego, CA.

Placed in service in 1984 under the direction of the Military Sealift Command (MSC) as SS SGT Matej Kocak (AK-3005), operated by Waterman Steamship Corp.

SS SGT Matej Kocak (AK-3005) is one of the Military Sealift Command's seventeen Container & Roll-on/Roll-off Ships and is part of the 36 ships in the Prepositioning Program.

SS SGT Matej Kocak (AK-3005) is based at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean as a member of Maritime Prepositioning Ship Squadron Two. She carries equipment to support a US Marine Corps Expeditionary Brigade

Acquired by the US Navy's Military Sealift Command, date unknown, placed in service as USNS SGT. Matej Kocak (T-AK-3005)

USNS SGT. Matej Kocak (T-AK-3005) is reported as having ran aground off the east coast of Okinawa, Japan Thursday, 22 January 2015 at approximately 1130. The vessel is located approximately six nautical miles of the coast off Uruma, Okinawa. Successfully refloated, 3 February 2015

Specifications:
Displacement 26,125 t.(lt) 48,754 t.(fl)
Length 821'
Beam 105' 6"
Draft 33' 10" (max)
Speed 20 kts.

Cargo Capacity

Containers, 532; ro-ro, 152,236 square feet

JP-5 bbls, 20,290; DF-2 bbls, 12,355

Mogas bbls, 3,717

Stable Water, 2,189

Cranes

two twin 50 ton

one 30 ton gantry

Aircraft helicopter platform

Armament none

Complement

Civilian Mariners 34

Technicians 10

Propulsion

two boilers

two GE turbines; 30,000 hp

single shaft

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
SS SGT. Matej Kocak (AK-3005) (MSC Charter)
0913300507	279k	*SS SGT Matej Kocak* (AK-3005)** anchored a short distance from Norfolk Naval Station, VA., 1 January 1984. U.S. Navy photo now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives Identifier: 6404473	Robert Hurst
	62k	*SS SGT Matej Kocak* (AK-3005)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo # 150122-N-ZZ999-110 OKINAWA, Japan (Jan. 22, 2014)	MSC web site
	70k	*SS SGT Matej Kocak* (AK-3005)** at anchor, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Global Security web site
	47k	*SS SGT Matej Kocak* (AK-3005)** at anchor, date and location unknown.	US Maritime Administration
	40k	*SS SGT Matej Kocak* (AK-3005)** lifting her anchors as she gets under way, date and location unknown.	US Maritime Administration
USNS SGT. Matej Kocak (T-AK-3005)
	1045k	The Military Sealift Command container and RORO ship *USNS Sgt. Matej Kocak* (T-AK 3005) transits the South China Sea. The Military Sealift Command rescue and salvage ship USNS Salvor (T-ARS-52)** escorted Kocak from Okinawa, Japan to Singapore for repairs. US Navy photo # 150331-N-ZZ999-006 SOUTH CHINA SEA (March 31, 2015) by Austin R. Hanbur.	Lee Wahler
	239k	Ships of the Military Sealift Command Sealift Program (PM5) including *USNS Maj Stephen W. Pless* (T-AK-3007) and USNS Sgt Matej Kocak (T-AK-3005)** moored at Newport News, VA., 22 September 2019. US Navy Photo # 160817-N-OH262-361 NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Aug. 17, 2016 by Bill Mesta	Lee Wahler