USNS Mission San Fernando
USNS Mission San Fernando | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Mission San Fernando |
| Namesake | Mission San Fernando |
| Owner | Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS) |
| Operator | Pacific Tankers, Inc. |
| Builder | Marinship Corporation, Sausalito, California |
| Laid down | 26 August 1943 |
| Launched | 25 November 1943 |
| In service | 29 February 1944 |
| Out of service | 10 May 1946 |
| Fate | Transferred to the US Navy, 21 October 1947 |
| United States | |
| Name | Mission San Fernando |
| Owner |
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| Operator | Union Oil Co. |
| Acquired | 21 October 1947 |
| Out of service | 24 May 1955 |
| Stricken | 22 June 1955 |
| Identification | Hull symbol: T-AO-122 |
| Fate | Reacquired by the Navy, 21 June 1956 |
| United States | |
| Name | Mission San Fernando |
| Owner | MSTS |
| Operator | Marine Transportation Lines |
| Acquired | 21 June 1956 |
| In service | 21 June 1956 |
| Out of service | 4 September 1957 |
| Identification | Hull symbol: T-AO-122 |
| Fate | Reacquired by the Navy, 28 September 1964 |
| United States | |
| Name |
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| Namesake |
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| Owner | Military Sea Transportation Service |
| Acquired | 28 September 1964 |
| In service | 28 February 1966 |
| Renamed | Vanguard, 1 September 1965 |
| Reclassified |
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| Stricken | 13 December 1999 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped, 5 November 2013 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Mission Buenaventura-class oiler |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 524 ft (160 m) |
| Beam | 68 ft (21 m) |
| Draft | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Propulsion | Turbo-electric, single screw, 6,000 hp (4.47 MW) |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Complement | 52 |
| Armament | None |
SS Mission San Fernando was a Type T2-SE-A2 tanker built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. After the war she was acquired by the United States Navy as USS Mission San Fernando (AO-122). Later the tanker transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service as USNS Mission San Fernando (T-AO-122). She was a member of the Mission Buenaventura-class oiler and was named for Mission San Fernando Rey de España in Los Angeles. She was later renamed USNS Muscle Shoals (T-AGM-19) (after Muscle Shoals, Alabama), and, later, USNS Vanguard (T-AG-194).