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MT Empire State (T-AOT-5193)

Double-hulled Tanker:
  • Built in 2009-2010 by General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego American Petroleum Tankers, LLC
  • Delivered in June 2010
  • Under long-term Charter in 2010 to the US Navy, assigned to the US Navy Military Sealift Command (MSC)
  • MT Empire State is one of the Military Sealift Command's long term chartered tankers and is part of the Sealift Program
    Specifications:
    Displacement 64,756 tons
    Length 576'
    Beam 105'
    Draft light draft 8.5', load drant 42'
    Speed 15.8 kts.
    Complement 21 Contract Mariners
    Cargo Capacity 53,683 short tons
    Propulsion Diesel, 11640hp
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    Empire State 2095k MT Empire State (T-AOT-5193) underway while conducting sea trials in the harbor at San Diego, in June 2010. MSC web site
    Empire State
    0965990303    		 133k MT Empire State (T-AOT-5193) berthed in Los Angeles, 15 March 2015.
    		John Spivey
    Empire State
    0965990302    		 107k USNS Yukon (T-AO-202) conducts a consolidationed loading with MT Empire State (T-AOT-5193) in the Pacific Ocean, 28 October 2019.
    >Photo from www.flickr.com by Andrew    		 John Spivey
    MT Empire State (T-AOT-5193)
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