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T-AOT-9101 Petersburg

Chesapeake Class Tanker:
  • Built in 1962-3 as SS Sinclair Texas at Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point Yard, Baltimore, MD. for the Sinclair Oil Co.
  • Delivered, 28 June 1963, for commercial service to Dover Tanker Corp.
  • Delivered by Dover Tanker Corp., 8 January 1979, to Charles Kutz & Co., Inc.
  • Renamed SS Petersburg, 27 July 1981
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 15 December 1987, MARAD exchange program
  • Assigned to the MARAD Ready Reserve Fleet
  • Petersburg possesses an offshore petroleum discharge systems (OPDS). The ship can deliver 257,000-barrel of JP-5 fuel from up to four miles offshore through its integrated OPDS
  • Activated and placed in service, date unknown, by the Military Sealift Command (MSC) as Petersburg (T-AOT-9101)
  • Petersburg is operated under contract by Interocean Ugland Management Corp., Voorhees, N.J.
  • Petersburg is one of the Military Sealift Command's thirteen Common User Tankers and one of the 90 RRF ships in the Sealift Program Office (PM5)
  • Petersburg in assigned to the Pacific area, Maritime Prepositioning Ship Squadron Three and is pre-positioned in the Guam/Saipan area
    Specifications:
    Displacement 14,977 t.(lt) 48,993 t.(fl)
    Length 736'
    Beam 102'
    Draft 39' (max)
    Speed 14 kts.
    Complement 38
    Cargo Capacity 257,000 bbls fuel oil
    Armament none
    Propulsion 2 Combustion Engineering boilers; 2 Bethlehem turbines; 15,000 hp; 1 shaft
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    Petersburg 87k Petersburg (T-AOT-9101) underway, overhead view, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 MSC web site
    Petersburg 144k A Utility boat passes Petersburg (T-AOT-9101) in Pohang Harbor, Republic of Korea, 20 October 1998, as she prepares to deploy a single-anchor leg mooring system (SALM). Once deployed, the SALM provides a semipermanent platform for continued fuel discharge operations.
    US Navy photo # 981020-F-5789F-503 by SSGT Steve Faulisi, from the collections of the Defense Information Visual Center.    		 Bill Gonyo
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