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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

USNS Andrew J. Higgins (T-AO-190)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Juliet - Hotel
NAJH

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation (3) - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (4)
Second Row - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Libya, Op. Eldorado Canyon) - Southwest Asia Service Medal

USNS Andrew J. Higgins (T-AO-190) was transferred to Chile and renamed Almirante Montt (AO-52)

Henry J. Kaiser Class Fleet Oiler:

Laid down, 21 November 1985, at Avondale Industries, Westwego, LA.

Launched, 17 January 1987

Delivered to the US Navy, 22 October 1987

Placed in service with the Military Sealift Command (MSC) as USNS Andrew J. Higgins (T-AO-190)

Placed out of service, 6 May 1996, laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay Benecia, CA. Maintenance Category B

Struck from the Naval Register, 6 January 2009

Sold to Chile, 19 May 2009, withdrawn for the National Defense Reserve Fleet Suisun Bay, Benecia, 24 September 2009, bound for overhaul at Mobile, AL. to join Chilean Navy as Almirante Montt (AO-52) in February 2010

Specifications:
Displacement 9,500 t.(lt) 42,382 t.(fl)
Length 677'
Beam 97' 5"
Draft 35' (max.)
Armament none
Cargo Capacity 178,000 bbls
Speed 20 kts.
Complement

Civilian Mariners

18 Officers

64 Merchant Seamen

Navy

1 Officer

20 Enlisted

Aircraft helicopter platform only

Propulsion

two medium speed Colt-Pielstick PC4-2/2 10V-570 Diesel engines

twin shafts, 16,000shp per shaft

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USNS Andrew J. Higgins (T-AO-190)
091919018	130k	*Namesake* Andrew Jackson Higgins - founded Higgins Industries, the New Orleans-based manufacturer of "Higgins boats" (LCVPs) during World War II. The company started out as a small boat-manufacturing business, and became one of the biggest industries in the world with upwards of eighty thousand workers and government contracts worth nearly three hundred fifty million dollars. General Dwight Eisenhower is quoted as saying, "Andrew Higgins ... is the man who won the war for us. ... If Higgins had not designed and built those LCVPs, we never could have landed over an open beach. The whole strategy of the war would have been different." Adolf Hitler recognized his heroic war efforts in ship production and bitterly dubbed him the "New Noah". Photo - Andrew J. Higgins - The National WWII Museum, New Orleans, LA.	Tommy Trampp
	54k	*USNS Andrew J. Higgins* (T-AO-190)** underway, sometime during her 1987-1996 period of active service. US Navy photo.	Robert Hurst
091919019	226k	*USNS Andrew J. Higgins* (T-AO-190)** underway, date and location unknown.	Nicholas Tiberio
	208k	*USNS Andrew J. Higgins* (T-AO-190)** at anchor off Singapore, 26 December 1992. Photo by Simon Olsen.	Chris Howell, Southland Ship Stores Limited, Port of Bluff, N.Z.
	126k	*USNS Andrew J. Higgins* (T-AO-190) conducting an UNREP with USS Sacramento (AOE-1)** off San Clemente Island, CA., circa 1993-94	Photos by Douglas Brown USS Sacramento
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	63k	*USNS Andrew J. Higgins* (T-AO-190)** laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., April 2002.	Photo by Kirk Rattenne
	267k	Bow view of *USNS Andrew J. Higgins* (T-AO-190)** laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., date unknown. MARAD photo	Maritime Administration
	220k	Stern view of *USNS Andrew J. Higgins* (T-AO-190)** laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., date unknown. MARAD photo	Maritime Administration
	4460k	Ex-*USNS Andrew J. Higgins* (T-AO-190)** under tow southbound in the north channel of San Francisco Bay, 24 September 2009. The ship was towed to Atlantic Marine Shipyard, Mobile, AL. for the refit before being transferred to the Chilean Navy as Almirante Montt (AO-52)	Photos by CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG Ret.
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Almirante Montt (AO-52)
	63k	Ex-*USNS Andrew J. Higgins* (T-AO-190)** in Chilean naval service as Almirante Montt (AO-52) exiting the Gatun Lake Locks, westbound, in the Panama Canal, 4 April 2010. Photos from Panama Channel web site.	Jorge Gustavo Rene Krag Milet
	66k	Almirante Montt (AO-52) drops anchor in her new homeport of Valparaiso, Chile, 16 April 2010. Note the new Chilean ship Comandante Toro (OPV 82). Photos By Richard Brito Meza.	Jorge Gustavo Rene Krag Milet
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	1754k	LCDR. Robert Speight, executive officer of the guided-missile frigate *USS Boone* (FFG-28)*, passes orders as the Chilean navy oiler Almirante Montt* (AO-52) approaches for a replenishment at sea. This is the first time *Almirante Montt* has conducted a replenishment with a foreign navy since she was acquired by the Chilean navy. *Boone* is deployed to South America supporting Southern Seas 2011. US Navy photo 110623-N-ZI300-025 PACIFIC OCEAN (June 23, 2011) by MC1 Steve Smith	Lee Wahler