USNS Concord (T-AFS-5)

USNS Concord (T-AFS-5) USNS Concord (T-AFS-5), June 2007
Career (USA)
Ordered:	18 December 1964
Builder:	National Steel and Shipbuilding Company
Laid down:	March 26, 1966
Launched:	December 17 1966
Acquired:	21 November 1968
Commissioned:	November 27 1968 as Concord (AFS-5)
Decommissioned:	October 15, 1992
Reclassified:	USNS Concord (T-AFS-5)
Status:	Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force
General characteristics
Class and type:	Mars class combat stores ship
Displacement:	9,200 tons (light) 15,900-18,663 tons (full)
Length:	581′ (177.1 m)
Beam:	79′ (24.1 m)
Draft:	27′ (8.2 m)
Propulsion:	3 × 580psi Babcock and Wilcox boilers, one De Laval turbine, single shaft
Speed:	20 knots
Complement:	Officers: 48; enlisted: 441
Armament:	2 × twin 3″/50 gun mounts
Aircraft carried:	2 × UH-46 Sea Knight helicopters

For other ships of the same name, see USS Concord.

USNS Concord (T-AFS-5) became the first of five United States Navy Mars class combat stores ships to be transferred to Military Sealift Command on October 15, 1992. USNS Mars followed on February 1, 1993, USNS San Diego on August 11, 1993, USNS San Jose on November 2, 1993 and USNS Niagara Falls on September 23, 1994. San Diego was deactivated on December 10, 1997, and Mars was deactivated on February 12, 1998.

Concord is assigned to the Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force (PM1), MSC Far East.

References

• This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.