USS Savannah (AOR-4)
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| Name: | USS Savannah |
| Builder: | General Dynamics Corp., Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | 22 January 1969 |
| Launched: | 23 April 1970 |
| Commissioned: | 5 December 1970 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 July 1995 |
| Struck: | 29 October 1998 |
| Motto: | We Never Stop Pumping |
| Nickname(s): | Savvy Sue |
| Honors and awards: |
1 battle star & Meritorious Unit Commendation (Vietnam) |
| Fate: | Transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Wichita-class replenishment oiler |
| Displacement: | 40,100 long tons (40,743 t) full |
| Length: | 659 ft (201 m) |
| Beam: | 96 ft (29 m) |
| Draft: | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Propulsion: | 3 × boilers, steam turbines, 2 × shafts, 32,000 shp (23,862 kW) |
| Speed: | 25 knots (46 km/h; 29 mph) |
| Complement: | 22 officers, 398 enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried: | 2 × CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters |
USS Savannah (AOR-4), was a Wichita-class replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. The fifth Savannah was laid down on 22 January 1969 by the General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division at Quincy, Massachusetts, launched on 23 April 1970, sponsored by Mrs. Ralph L. Shifley, wife of Vice Admiral R. L. Shifley, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, and commissioned on 5 December 1970, Capt. Bernard P. Williams, Jr., in command.
After shakedown out of Guantanamo Bay, Savannah proceeded to her homeport at Norfolk, Virginia. Arriving on 12 May, she completed post-shakedown availability on 9 August, and prepared for deployment to the Mediterranean.
Savannah left Norfolk on 20 September. En route to Rota, Spain, she refueled ships taking part in a Caribbean exercise. After reporting to the 6th Fleet on 8 October, Savannah operated in Task Group 60.1. By the end of the year, she had replenished 178 ships.
Savannah continued to operate with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean until early March 1972. On 9 March, she headed west for Norfolk and arrived there eight days later. Her stay in the United States, however, was cut short by the exigencies of the Vietnam War. On 25 April, she left the Chesapeake Bay and, four days later, transited the Panama Canal. Savannah arrived in Subic Bay, Philippines, on 20 May and began a five-month tour replenishing the fleet along the coast of Vietnam. She made six line swings to the Gulf of Tonkin during this time. Each swing was punctuated by a 4–6-day load out period in Subic Bay.
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