SS Wright (T-AVB-3)

Career
Name:	SS Wright
Builder:	Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down:	1 June 1968
Launched:	1 July 1969
Acquired:	1 February 1970
Renamed:	SS Wright (T-AVB-3), 14 May 1986
Status:	in active service, as of 2024
General characteristics
Class and type:	Wright-class Aviation Logistics Support (Roll-on/Roll-off) Container Ship
Displacement:	8,106 long tons (8,236 t) light 23,800 long tons (24,182 t) full
Length:	602 ft (183 m)
Beam:	90 ft (27 m)
Draft:	30 ft (9.1 m)
Propulsion:	Geared steam turbine, single propeller
Speed:	18.7 knots (34.6 km/h; 21.5 mph)

SS Wright (T-AVB-3) is one of two Aviation Logistics Support (Roll-on/Roll-off) Container Ships built for the United States Navy in 1968.

The lead ship of her class of two, she was originally laid down 1 June 1968 at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc. of Pascagoula, Mississippi as SS Mormacsun, a Maritime Commission type (C5-S-78) Ro-Ro vessel under Maritime Administration contract (MA 224) for Moore-McCormack Lines. Launched 1 July 1969, she was delivered to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) 1 February 1970 and subsequently renamed SS Young America (date unknown). Again renamed SS Wright (T-AVB-3) on 14 May 1986, the ship was assigned to MARAD Ready Reserve Force (RRF), MSC PM-5 Sealift Program Office, Logistics Prepositioning Force.

Wright provides support for Marine Corps helicopters and is maintained in reduced status ROS-5 (five day reactivation status) at Baltimore, Maryland.

References

• "T-AVB-3 Wright". Service Ship Photo Archive. http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/48/4803.htm. Retrieved June 19, 2007.