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Sacramento-class fast combat support ship

Class of United States Navy logistics ships

Summary

Class of United States Navy logistics ships

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	USS Camden AOE-2 050217-N-6074Y-108 crop.jpg
image_caption	USS Camden (AOE-2)
section2	{{Infobox ship/class overview
name	Sacramento
builders	*Puget Sound Naval Shipyard,
operators
class_before	N/A
class_after
in_commission_range	1964–2005
total_ships_completed	4
total_ships_retired	4
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
type	Fast combat support ship
displacement	53000 LT
length	795 ft (overall)
beam	107 ft (extreme)
draft	39 ft
power	100000 shp
propulsion	4 boilers producing 600 psi at 856 F; super-heated steam driving 2 × turbines, producing 100000 hp at 4,829 rpm
speed	26 kn
capacity	177000 USbbl fuel, 2150 tons ammunition, 500 tons dry stores, 250 tons refrigerated stores.
complement	24 officers, 576 enlisted
sensors	* Mark 56 fire-control system
armament	*NATO Sea Sparrow missiles
aircraft	CH-46E Sea Knight

New York Shipbuilding
2 × Phalanx close-in weapons systems

The Sacramento-class fast combat support ships were a class of four United States Navy supply ships used to refuel, rearm, and restock ships in the United States Navy in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

History

The idea of combining the capabilities of a fleet oiler (AO), ammunition ship (AE), and refrigerated stores ship (AF) had been conceived during the Second World War by Admiral Arleigh Burke, later Chief of Naval Operations, who sought to create a single ship that would perform the functions of three vessels while simultaneously integrating into a carrier battle group. This was deemed necessary because World War II replenishments had to be scheduled well in advance due to communications problems and were subject to change due to weather or combat related reasons. On top of that the Underway Replenishment Groups of that time were slow and unwieldy. After experimenting with this "replenishment oiler" concept with the German war prize (placed in service as ), the US Navy's solution to these problems was to create a multi-product station ship, which resulted in the construction of the Sacramento class. The Sacramentos had been designed to carry more fuel and ammunition than the largest ammunition ships then in service with the US Navy. The AOEs were also designed to be much faster than previous auxiliaries at 26 knots, giving them the ability to operate in company with a carrier battle group rather than in a separate, slower replenishment group. The first two ships each received one-half of the powerplants removed from the unfinished , while the remaining two received new construction machinery. All four had General Electric turbines.

To fulfill the same role in the less demanding Anti-Submarine Support Aircraft Carrier (CVS) groups, the navy built the similar, but smaller and slower, AORs.

Construction of the unnamed AOE-5 was cancelled in 1968.{{Cite web

The ships that now fulfill this role for the U.S. Navy are the s. Those ships are not commissioned ships of the Navy; rather they are operated by the Military Sealift Command.

Ships

Hull no.	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Fate
AOE-1	Puget Sound Naval Shipyard	30 June 1961	14 September 1963	14 March 1964	1 October 2004	Struck 1 October 2004, Sold for scrap
AOE-2	New York Shipbuilding	17 February 1964	29 May 1965	1 April 1967	14 October 2005	Struck 14 October 2005, Sold for scrap
AOE-3	Puget Sound Naval Shipyard	1 October 1965	1 March 1968	5 April 1969	15 March 2005	Struck 15 March 2005, Sold for scrap
AOE-4	29 November 1966	21 June 1969	28 March 1970	17 February 2005	Struck 2 February 2005, Sold for scrap

Notes

References

(1979). "Jane's Fighting Ships 1979-80". Jane's Publishing Group.

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