USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7)
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| Name: | USNS Rainier (T-AOE-5) |
| Namesake: | Mount Rainier |
| Ordered: | 3 November 1988 |
| Builder: | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company San Diego, California |
| Laid down: | 31 May 1990 |
| Launched: | 28 September 1991 |
| Commissioned: | 21 January 1995 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 August 2003 |
| Homeport: | Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Washington |
| Motto: | The Legend Of Service |
| Fate: | active in service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Supply-class fast combat support ship |
| Displacement: | approx. 48,800 tons (49,600 t) |
| Length: | 754.6 ft (230.0 m) |
| Beam: | 107 ft (33 m) |
| Draught: | 39 ft (12 m) |
| Propulsion: | four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines 105,000 hp (78 MW) |
| Speed: | 26 knots (48 km/h) |
| Complement: | 176 civilians, 30 military |
| Aircraft carried: | Two MH-60S |
The third US Navy vessel named after Mount Rainier, USNS Rainier is the second ship in the Supply class of fast combat support ships. After service in the United States Navy from 1995 through 2003 as USS Rainier (AOE-7), her weapons systems were removed and she was transferred on August 29, 2003 to the Military Sealift Command, which designated her USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7).
Rainier has the speed to keep up with the carrier strike groups. She rapidly replenishes Navy task forces. She receives petroleum products, ammunition and stores from shuttle ships and redistributes these items simultaneously to carrier strike group ships. This reduces the vulnerability of serviced ships by reducing alongside time.
Like other fast combat support ships, she is part of MSC's Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force.
USNS Rainier's cargo capacities:
- Diesel Fuel Marine (DFM): 1,965,600 US gallons (7,440 m³)[1]
- JP-5 fuel: 2,620,800 US gallons (9,920 m³)[1]
- Bottled gas: 800 bottles[1]
- Ordnance stowage: 1,800 tons[1]
- Chill and freeze stowage: 400 tons[1]
- Water: 20,000 US gallons (76 m³)[1]
USNS Rainier's refueling rigs can pump fuel at a rate of 3,000 US gallons per minute (200 L/s).[1]
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