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Ammunition ship

Warship specially configured to carry ammunition

Ammunition ship

Warship specially configured to carry ammunition

USNS ''Kilauea'', one of the last US Navy ammunition ships

An ammunition ship is an auxiliary ship specially configured to carry ammunition, usually for naval ships and aircraft. An ammunition ship's cargo handling systems, designed with extreme safety in mind, include ammunition hoists with airlocks between decks, and mechanisms for flooding entire compartments with sea water in case of emergencies. Ammunition ships most often deliver their cargo to other ships using underway replenishment, using both connected replenishment and vertical replenishment. To a lesser extent, they transport ammunition from one shore-based weapons station to another.

In the United States Navy

U.S. Navy ammunition ships are frequently named for volcanos.

During World War II, U.S. Navy ammunition ships were converted from merchant ships or specially built on merchant ship hulls, often of Type C2. They were armed, and were crewed by naval sailors. Several of them were destroyed in spectacular explosions during the war, such as , which exploded in the Admiralty Islands on November 10, 1944, and the Liberty ship , which was hit by a single kamikaze attack near the Philippines on December 28, 1944, and which was captured on film by an amateur photographer on a nearby vessel. The ship disintegrated in seconds with the loss of all hands. , and were hit by kamikaze aircraft at Okinawa and sank.

The last U.S. ammunition ships, the , have been replaced by the s, which also include carrying dry and refrigerated cargo.

References

References

  1. "AE Ammunition Ships". GlobalSecurity.org.
  2. [http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/s_AE.htm Dictionary of American Fighting Ships (DANFS), Naval Vessel Register, Ammunition Ships.] {{webarchive. link. (June 5, 2011)
  3. Hayes, Andrew. (25 April 2012). "Kamikaze Attack – USS ''John Burke'' – Complete destruction of ship and all on board!".
  4. [https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/n/naval-armed-guard-service-in-world-war-ii/action-at-okinawa.html US Navy, Armed Guard Service]
  5. "Lewis & Clark Class Auxiliary Cargo and Ammunition Ship (T-AKE)". Joint Interoperability Test Command web site.
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