USS Butte (AE-27)
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| Career (US) | |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 30 March 1965 |
| Laid down: | 21 July 1966 |
| Launched: | 9 August 1967 |
| Commissioned: | 14 December 1968 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 June 1996 |
| In service: | Transferred to the MSC |
| Out of service: | 24 May 2004 |
| Struck: | 24 May 2004 |
| Homeport: | Norfolk, Virginia (original) Naval Weapons Station Earle (last) |
| Motto: | "We keep the guns loaded" |
| Fate: | sunk as a target 3 July 2006 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Light: 10,524 tons Full load: 20,068 tons |
| Length: | 564 ft (172 m) |
| Beam: | 81 ft (25 m) |
| Draught: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | 3 × boilers steam turbines single shaft 22,000 shp |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | As AE-27: 28 officers, 388 enlisted as T-AE-27: 125-133 civilian crew, 7-24 military |
| Armament: | As AE-27: two Phalanx CIWS as T-AE-27: none |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters |
The second USS Butte (AE-27) was a Kilauea-class ammunition ship in the United States Navy. She was laid down 21 July 1966 by General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division at Quincy, Massachusetts and was christened and launched 9 August 1967. She was commissioned on 14 December 1968 in the Boston Naval Shipyard and assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, originally homeported in Norfolk, Virginia.
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