USNS Mission Santa Ynez (T-AO-134)
Headed for Texas about April 10, 2010 - she was moored in Row E at Suisun Bay so we didn't
see her.
The Mission Santa Ynez will
be the fifth ship removed from Suisun Bay since October when the
Obama administration ended a two-year moratorium and began recycling
ships as the litigation
played out before Burrell. TIMES HERALD March 31, 2010

Laid down,
9 September 1943, as a Maritime Commission type (T2-SE-A2) tanker hull
under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1275) at Marinship Corp.,
Sausalito, CA.
Displacement
5,532 t.(lt) 21,880 t.(fl) Length
524' Beam
68' Draft 30'
(max) Speed 16.5 kts.
Complement 52 mariners Armament
none Propulsion turbo-electric, single
screw, 6000hp


From: Wikipedia

Being towed backwards under I-680

Tugboats
push the Mission Santa Ynez under the Benicia Bridge as it makes its
way to a San Francisco shipyard where it will be prepped
for its journey to a Texas scrap yard. The tanker was part of the ghost
fleet. Photo: Lance Iversen / The Chronicle

Pushing her into dry dock

IN DRYDOCK by: daver6@sbcglobal.net'
On Youtube
May 3, 2010 - Through PANAMA
CANAL by: Travel Server







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