USS Wabash (AOR-5)
Wabash refueling USS Duncan, 1984 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Wabash |
| Namesake | Wabash River |
| Builder | General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down | 21 January 1970 |
| Launched | 6 February 1971 |
| Commissioned | 20 November 1971 |
| Decommissioned | 30 September 1994 |
| Stricken | 8 April 1997 |
| Identification | IMO number: 8644204 |
| Nickname(s) | "The Wabash Cannonball" |
| Fate | Scrapped, 2013 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Wichita-class replenishment oiler |
| Displacement | 37,360 long tons (37,960 t) full |
| Length | 659 ft (201 m) |
| Beam | 96 ft (29 m) |
| Draft | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 390 |
| Armament | 4 × 3 in (76 mm) guns, 1 × Sea Sparrow SAM |
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USS Wabash (AOR-5) was a Wichita-class replenishment oiler in the United States Navy from 1970 to 1994.
Wabash was named for the Wabash River, a river that rises in Darke County, Ohio, near Fort Recovery and meanders westward across Indiana until it reaches Illinois at a point just southwest of Terre Haute, Indiana.