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USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14)
USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14) in the Gulf of Oman 2013
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Name: USNS Cesar Chavez
Namesake: César Chávez
Awarded: 26 February 2010
Builder: National Steel and Shipbuilding
Laid down: 9 May 2011
Launched: 5 May 2012
Sponsored by: Helen Chavez
In service: 24 October 2012
Status: In active service
Badge: USNS Cesar Chaves T-AKE-14 Crest
General characteristics
Class & type: Lewis and Clark-class cargo ship
Displacement: 41,000 long ton (41,700 tonne)
Length: 689 ft (210 m)
Beam: 105.6 ft (32.2 m)
Draft: 29.9 ft (9.1 m)
Propulsion: Integrated propulsion and ship service electrical system, with generation at 6.6 kV by FM/MAN B&W diesel generators; one fixed pitch propeller; bow thruster
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h)
Range: 14,000 nautical miles at 20 knots
(26,000 km at 37 km/h)
Capacity: • Max dry cargo weight:
  5,910 long tons (6,005 t)
• Max dry cargo volume:
  783,000 cubic feet (22,000 m³)
• Max cargo fuel weight:
  2,350 long tons (2,390 t)
• Cargo fuel volume:
  18,000 barrels (2,900 m³)
  (DFM: 10,500) (JP5:7,500)
Complement: 49 military, 123 civilian
Aircraft carried: two helicopters

USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14), a Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship, will be the first ship operated by the United States Navy to be named for Cesar Chavez (1927–93), labor leader and civil rights activist.[1] Mr. Chávez joined the Navy at the age of seventeen in 1944 during World War II, and served for two years. Chávez had hoped that he would learn skills in the Navy that would help him later when he returned to civilian life, however he soon discovered that at the time Mexican-Americans in the Navy could only work as deckhands or painters.[2][3] Cesar Chavez's keel was laid down on 9 May 2011 by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) in San Diego.[4] The ship was launched on 5 May 2012.[5]

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