The SS ''Chesapeake'' is a transport
oiler that was in service with the
United States Navy
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from 2000 to 2009. She was operated by
Military Sealift Command.
Construction and commercial service 1964–1987
SS ''Chesapeake'' was built by the
Bethlehem Steel
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Sparrows Point
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Yard at
Baltimore
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, Maryland, and delivered to the
Hess Shipping Company on 29 October 1964. She entered commercial service with the company as the
tanker SS ''Hess Voyager''. She was renamed SS ''Chesapeake'' on 22 July 1980. She is a near exact twin to her sister ship
SS ''Petersburg''.
Ready Reserve Force 1987–2000
The U.S.
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relieved Hess Shipping of ''Chesapeake'' under an exchange program on 15 December 1987. ''Chesapeake'' was then laid up in the Maritime Administrations Ready Reserve Fleet until 2000.
Military Sealift Command Service 2000–2009
''Chesapeake'' was activated for service in the
Military Sealift Command in 2000 as a transport oiler.
Interocean Ugland Management Corporation of
Voorhees, New Jersey, operates her with a civilian crew under contract to Military Sealift Command as a
Common User Tanker as SS ''Chesapeake'' (AOT-5084).
Other OPDS tankers are the ,
SS ''Petersburg'', and the
SS ''Mount Washington''. ''Chesapeake'' was removed from service in 2009 and was scrapped on 19 April 2021 at Brownsville.
Gallery
Image:US_Navy_060608-N-5526M-003_The_crew_aboard_the_Transport_Tanker_SS_Chesapeake_is_preparing_a_single_anchor_leg_moor_(SALM)_to_be_slid_over_the_side_of_the_ship_and_during_exercise_Delmar.jpg, ''SS Chesapeake'', (T-AOT-5084), Chesapeake amidships view of SALM
Image:US_Navy_060608-N-5526M-001_The_crew_aboard_the_Transport_Tanker_SS_Chesapeake_is_preparing_a_single_anchor_leg_moor_(SALM)_to_be_slid_over_the_side_of_the_ship_and_during_exercise_Delmar.jpg, ''SS Chesapeake'', (T-AOT-5084), Chesapeake deck view of SALM
Image:Placing_a_SLAM_-_081105-F-3456J-103.jpg, ''SS Chesapeake'', (T-AOT-5084), Chesapeake deploying SALM
References
FM 10-67-1 CONCEPTS AND EQUIPMENT OF PETROLEUM OPERATIONS
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External links
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Historic American Engineering Record in Texas
Tankers of the United States
Ships built in Sparrows Point, Maryland
1964 ships
Chesapeake-class transport oilers
Oilers