USS_Kansas_City_(AOR-3)

USS <i>Kansas City</i> (AOR-3)

USS Kansas City (AOR-3)

Oiler of the United States Navy

For other ships with the same name, see USS Kansas City.

USS Kansas City (AOR-3) was the third of the Wichita-class replenishment oilers. She was the second ship to be named for the city of Kansas City, Missouri.

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The keel was laid on 18 April 1968 at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, and the ship was launched on 1 June 1969. The ship was commissioned on 6 June 1970 and saw service in the Vietnam War and Gulf Wars. Subsequently, the ship was decommissioned on 7 October 1994, and was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 8 April 1997. In 2013 she was broken up at All Star Metals, Brownsville, Texas .[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    Prézelin and Baker 1990, p. 836.
  2. [2]
    Baker 1998, p. 1056.
  3. [3]
    "USS Kansas City (AOR 3)". Navysite.de. Retrieved 29 September 2008.


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