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USS Seattle (AOE-3)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Bravo - November
 NABN
Tactical Voice Radio Call Sign - Vine Street
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons




Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Joint Meritorious Unit Award
Second Row - Navy Unit Commendation (4) - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (2)
Third Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal (1-Iran/Indian Ocean, 2-Lebanon) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Lebanon, 2-Persian Gulf, 1-unknown)
Fourth Row - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Armed Forces Service Medal - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
Sacramento Class Fast Combat Support Ship:
  • Laid down, 1 October 1965 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA
  • Launched, 1 March 1968
  • Commissioned USS Seattle (AOE-3), 5 April 1969, CAPT. Bruce Keener III in command
  • Decommissioned, 15 March 2005, at Naval Station Norfolk, VA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 15 March 2005
  • Final Disposition, contract awarded for scrapping in September 2005 to ESCO Marine, Inc., Brownsville, TX. transferred to ESCO, 9 February 2006, scrapping completed, 26 January 2007
    Specifications:
    Displacement 18,884 t.(lt) 49,956 t.(fl)
    Length 793'
    Beam 107'
    Draft 38' (max.)
    Speed 26kts
    Complement
    24 Officers
    576 Enlisted
    Aircraft
    two CH46E Sea Knight helicopters
    Armament
    NATO Sparrow missiles
    two Phalanx CIWS
    Propulsion
    four boilers
    two geared steam turbines
    two shafts, 100,000shp
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    Seattle 95k USS Seattle (AOE-3) underway ,date and location unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Arctic 85k Left to Right; USS Arctic (AOE-8)
    USS Seattle (AOE-3),
    USS Supply (AOE-6) and
    USS Detroit (AOE-4) moored at Naval Weapons Station Earle, N.J., date unknown.    		 Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Seattle 84k USS Seattle (AOE-3) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr
    Seattle 91k USS Seattle (AOE-3) underway in the Caribbean Sea, June 1975 ©Richard Leonhardt
    Seattle 100k USS Seattle (AOE-3) underway in the Caribbean Sea in June 1975 ©Richard Leonhardt
    Seattle 673k USS Seattle (AOE-3) conducting a VERTREP while underway in the Caribbean Sea, off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in June 1975. ©Richard Leonhardt
    Seattle 46k USS Seattle (AOE-3) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		  
    Seattle 53k USS Seattle (AOE-3) underway, date and unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 USS Seattle (AOE-3) web site
    Seattle 61k USS Seattle (AOE-3) docking at Naval Station Rota, Spain, date unknown. Photo by Manolo Budiņo
    CV-67 John F. Kennedy 68k USS Seattle (AOE-3) replenishes USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) on her port side as the guided missile frigate USS Underwood (FFG 36) receives fuel and supplies from her starboard side.
    US Navy photo # 020709-N-6492H-512 by PH1 Jim Hampshire, 9 July 2002.    		 U.S. Navy
    Seattle 91k USS Seattle (AOE-3) underway off the North Carolina coast during an RAS with, USS Hue City (CG-66) 10 February 2002. Photo by Lt. Steve Dundas, CHC USNR USS Hue City
    CV-67 John F. Kennedy 37k USS Seattle (AOE-3) with USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), 14 June 2002 in the Northern Arabian Sea during Operation Enduring Freedom. Photo by LT Steve Dundas, CHC USNR
    Seattle 43k Ex-USS Seattle (AOE-3) laid up at the US Navy Ship Inactive Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA., in June 2005. The bow of the cruiser Ex-USS Des Moines (CA-134) is in the right foreground of the photo. Photo by Bob Haner USS Seattle

    For more photos and information about USS Seattle, see;
  • Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
  • USS Seattle AOE-3 Veterans Association
  • U.S. Navy Oilers
  • AE/AOE Sailors Association
  • Commanding Officers
    • Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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