Military Sealift Command - support ships - auxiliary vessels

PERSIAN GULF (March 8, 2008 ) The Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8 ) approaches the amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa (LHA 1) for a nighttime replenishment at sea.

Photo © U.S. Navy  (by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Richard Doolin)

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PERSIAN GULF (March 8, 2008 ) The Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8 ) sails in the Persian Gulf at dusk.

Photo © U.S. Navy (by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman David A. Brandenburg)

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PACIFIC OCEAN (April 1, 2008 ) An AS-332 Super Puma helicopter lifts off the deck of the Military Sealift Command combat stores ship USNS Concord (T-AFS 5) to conduct a vertical replenishment with the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CNV 68 ). Nimitz is deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet operating in the western Pacific and Indian oceans.

Photo © U.S. Navy (by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman John Wagner)

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ARABIAN SEA (Nov. 1, 2008) The Military Sealift Command product tanker SS Chesapeake (T-AOT 5084) tilts 13 degrees towards its port side to release the Single Anchored Leg Moor (SALM) into the ocean. Naval Beach Group (NBG) 1, Amphibious Construction Battalion (ACB) 1, and Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 1, install the legacy offshore petroleum discharge system to replace the existing multi-point mooring system that has been condemned beyond repair.

Photos © U.S. Navy (by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Brian Morales)

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SOUDA BAY, Crete, Greece (Jan 8, 2009) The Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Laramie (T-AO 203) arrives in Souda Bay for a routine port visit. Laramie is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting Persian Gulf and anti-piracy operations.

Photo U.S. Navy (by Paul Farley)

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eh oui des beaux navires sa fait rever

et oui de beaux navires
et nous; aprés le Godétia
vus les restictions budgétaires et la coopération avec les hollandais ,qui eux ,rognent sur tout
voici ce qui nous attants...




et oui nous sommes un petit pays



Aprés Louise Marie et le Léopold (plus de soux)

SOUTH CHINA SEA (Feb. 24, 2017) An MH-60S Sea Hawk from the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4 âBlack Knightsâ transfers cargo from the Military Sealift Command dry-cargo and ammunition ship USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4) to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) during a vertical replenishment-at-sea. The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of U.S. 3rd Fleet. U.S Navy aircraft carrier strike groups have patrolled the Indo-Asia-Pacific regularly and routinely for more than 70 years. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Matthew P. Granito/Released)


by U.S. Pacific Fleet, sur Flickr

L'énorme ravitailleur USNS Robert E. Peary (T-AKE-5) fait escale à Portsmouth pour tester les nouveaux quais prévus pour accueillir bientôt le nouveau porte-avions HMS Queen Elizabeth  

US Navy, Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship, USNS Robert E. Peary, Portsmouth, 11/03/17. Moored up at the newly refurbished 'Princess Royal Jetty', is USNS Robert E. Peary. The ship is in Portsmouth Harbour for the weekend, testing the new £100M equipment and jetty before the arrival of HMS Queen Elizabeth later in the year.


by Matthew Mckie, sur Flickr

by Matthew Mckie, sur Flickr

Le USNS Robert E. Peary (T-AKE-5) a quitté Portsmouth ce matin

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POLARIS POINT, Guam (March 2, 2017) USS Emory S. Land (AS 39) and USS Frank Cable (AS 40), the Navy’s only active submarine tenders, are moored in their homeport of Guam. Emory S. Land provides maintenance, hotel services and logistical support to submarines and surface ships in the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Daniel Willoughby/Released)