USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14) | |
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Career | |
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: | |
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]
Notes[]
- ↑ "Navy Names Ship for Civil Rights Activist Cesar Chavez". 18 May 2011. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=60467. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
- ↑ Haugen, Brenda. Cesar Chavez: Crusader for Social Change. Compass Point Books. http://books.google.com/books?id=EUC3UzoltS4C&lpg=PA30&ots=voFv7le6PX&dq=%22cesar%20chavez%22%20%22worst%20years%22%20navy&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
- ↑ Tejada-Flores, Rick. "The Fight in the Fields – Cesar Chávez and the Farmworkers Struggle". Public Broadcasting Service. http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/cesarchavez.html. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
- ↑ "Cesar Chavez (AKE 14)". Naval Vessel Register. 13 September 2011. http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/ake14.htm. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ Mitchell, Jeff; Sam Fellman (21 December 2011). "Naming Navy ship after Cesar Chavez makes waves". The Salinas Californian. http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20111221/NEWS01/112210305. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Category:USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14). |
- Priolo, Gary P. (29 July 2011). "USNS Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14)". Service Ship Photo Archive. NavSource Naval History. http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/75/7514.htm. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
- "T-AKE 14: USNS Cesar Chavez Photo Gallery". NASSCO/General Dynamics Corporation. http://www.nassco.com/news-center/galleries/usn-dc/take14-gallery.html. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
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