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GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001)

International Radio Call Sign:
Kilo - Golf - Yankee - Echo
 KGYE
Cape O Class Roll-on/Roll-off Vehicle Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down in 1967, by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Chester, PA.
  • Launched, 17 October 1967
  • Delivered upon completion, 19 December 1967, to Sunexport Holding Corp.
  • Time chartered by the US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, 19 December 1967
  • Returned to Sunexport Holding Corp. by the Maritime Administration, 21 July 1986
  • Purchased by the Maritime Administration from Sunexport Holding Corp., 29 May 1987
  • Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA., 26 June 1987
  • Assigned to the Maritime Administration's National Defense Reserve Fleet, Ready Reserve Force, (RRF), 1 July 1988
  • When activated GTS Admiral W.M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) is assigned to the Military Sealift Command's PM-5 Sealift Program Office
  • GTS Admiral W.M. Callaghan is laid up in a layberth at Alameda, CA. and can be activated in 5 days (ROS-5)

    Specifications:
    Displacement 13,161 t.(lt) 26,537 t.(fl)
    Length 694' 3"
    Beam 92'
    Draft 29' (max)
    Cargo Capacity 114,401 SQFT
    Speed 21.3 kts.
    Complement
    Fully Operational Status, 15
    Reduced Operational Status 9
    Propulsion
    Gas Turbine
    As Built - two Pratt and Whitney FT-4 engines of 25,000 SHP each
    1969 Replacements - two General Electric LM-2500 marine gas turbines
    Two propellers
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    Adm W M Callaghan 519k
    Namesake

    Vice Admiral William McCombe Callaghan (August 8, 1897 - July 8, 1991), born in San Francisco, California, was a U.S. naval officer and the first commander of the USS Missouri (BB-63). Callaghan graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1918. After commanding the USS Reuben James (DE-153) in 1936, he joined the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in 1939. In 1944, Captain Callaghan was named the first commanding officer of the Missouri, the Navy's newest battleship. On April 11, 1945, USS Missouri was struck by a kamikaze off the coast of Okinawa. The damage was minor, and no one died aboard this battleship except the Japanese pilot, Setsuo Ishino, whose body was recovered. Captain Callaghan insisted that the young Japanese airman had done his job to the best of his ability and with honor and deserved a military funeral. The following day, April 12, 1945, the pilot was given a military funeral at sea. During the Korean War, Callaghan commanded U.S. naval forces in the Far East. He retired in 1957. Admiral Callaghan died July 8, 1991, at Bethesda Naval Hospital after suffering a stroke.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-K-4600 (Color) a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives
    USS Missouri (BB-63) Captain William M. Callaghan, ship's Commanding Officer, on the navigating bridge during her Summer 1944 shakedown period.    		 Bill Gonyo
    Adm W M Callaghan 258k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) sliding down the builders ways, 17 October 1967, at Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Chester, PA.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command, Military Sealift Command Collection Photo No. MSC.1987-01.01    		 Mike Green
    Adm W M Callaghan
    0954100113    		 169k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001), right, moored bow to bow with the Seatrain Containership SS Transidaho [ex USNS General W. F. Hase (T-AP-146)] while working cargo at Bremerton, Germany in 1970.
    Newspaper photo    		 Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Adm W M Callaghan 306k A newspaper photo of GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) pierside in Bremerhaven, Germany in 1973. GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan shuttled regularly between the US East Coast and Bremerhaven for many years. Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Adm W M Callaghan
    0954100117    		 218k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) in Amsterdam harbor, for NATO exercise Reforger, 1 September 1977.
    Photo by Bert Verhoeff/ Anefo. Access number 2.24.01.05. Part number 929-3308. Nationaal Archief, the Dutch National Archives, Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, Wikipedia    		 Robert Hurst
    Adm W M Callaghan 394k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) moored at Savannah, GA., circa February/March, 1884/1985. Photo by William Cooling
    Adm W M Callaghan
    0954100115    		 227k Starboard bow view of GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) in a Mediterranean port, 1 August 1985, during Exercise BRIGHT STAR '85.
    U.S. National Archives and Records Administration CollecgePark MD., Identifier: 6458048, photo by David Nolan.    		 Robert Hurst
    Adm W M Callaghan 268k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) moored stern to, date and location unknown. CAPT. Ed Lanni
    Master GTS Admiral W M Callaghan
    Adm W M Callaghan 174k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Military Sealift Command
    Adm W M Callaghan 64k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) underway, date and location unknown.
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    Adm W M Callaghan 90k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) underway, date and location unknown.
    US MARAD photo    		 US Maritime Administration
    Adm W M Callaghan 92k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) moored pierside, date and location unknown.
    US MARAD photo    		 US Maritime Administration
    Adm W M Callaghan
    0954100114    		 352k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) outbound to sea from Port Canaveral, FL. with the first battalion-sized package of new Pershing missiles for troops in West Germany. 1 August 1969.
    US Army photo    		 Robert Hurst
    Adm W M Callaghan 2350k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) moored outboard of MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044) and across the pier from an unknown Ready Reserve Force ship in their lay berths across from the Ex-USS Hornet CVS-12) at Alameda Point, (ex-NAS Alameda) CA., 27 December 2008. Photo by Chris Rasmussen
    Cape Orlando 188k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) and MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044) underway in San Francisco Bay as they depart the former NAS Alameda, circa January 2011. Mike McCullough
    Adm W M Callaghan 175k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) underway in San Francisco Bay as she departs the former NAS Alameda, circa January 2011. Mike McCullough
    Adm W M Callaghan 173k
    Adm W M Callaghan
    0954100116    		 116k GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001), docked at Alameda, CA., 9 October 2014.
    Photo by Tony Hisgett, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0, Wikipedia.    		 Robert Hurst
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