USS San Jose
San Jose off San Diego, 1971 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | San Jose |
| Namesake | San Jose, California |
| Owner | United States Navy |
| Operator | Military Sealift Command |
| Awarded | 7 July 1967 |
| Builder | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down | 8 March 1969 |
| Launched | 13 December 1969 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs Robert Ellis, III, for the sponsor, her mother, Mrs George L. Murphy |
| Commissioned | 23 October 1970 as USS San Jose (AFS-7) |
| Decommissioned | 2 November 1993 |
| In service | 2 November 1993 as USNS San Jose (T-AFS-7) |
| Out of service | January 2010 |
| Stricken | 27 January 2010 |
| Identification |
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| Honors & awards | three battle stars for service in the Vietnam War |
| Fate | Scrapped, 2013 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Mars-class combat stores ship |
| Displacement | 9843 tons light; 17,373 tons full |
| Length | 581 ft (177 m) |
| Beam | 79 ft (24 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Propulsion | three 580 psi Babcock & Wilcox boilers; one De Laval Turbine; single shaft |
| Speed | 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | (MSC) 49 Navy, 124 civilian merchant seamen |
| Armament | 4 × 3-inch/50 dual-purpose guns (2 × 2) [originally equipped with 8 × 3-inch/50 guns], Chaff Launchers, 4 × M240G 7.62×51mm medium machine guns or M249 5.56×45mm light MG, and 1 M2 12.7×99mm heavy machine gun when security detachment is embarked. None as (USNS) |
| Aircraft carried | two UH-46 Sea Knight helicopters |
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USS San Jose (AFS-7) was a Mars-class combat stores ship acquired by the U.S. Navy (USN) in 1970. She served as a Navy ship until November 1993, and was involved in the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf War. The ship was transferred to the Military Sealift Command (MSC), and was redesignated USNS San Jose (T-AFS-7). As an MSC vessel, San Jose was involved in the INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce, the response to the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, as well as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The ship was deactivated in 2010, and was sold for scrap in 2013.