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USNS Schuyler Otis Bland (T-AK-277)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Mike - Romeo - Kilo NMRK

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
National Defense Service Medal - Vietnam Service Medal

Schuyler Otis Bland Class Cargo Ship:

Laid down, 9 May 1950, as a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-DX1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 2918), at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS.

Launched, 30 January 1951

Delivered to the Maritime Commission, 25 July 1951

Operated by American President Lines and later Waterman Steamship Corp.

Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, 25 July 1952

Acquired by the US Navy for operation by American Mail Line, circa 1957

Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, WA. in October 1959

Delivered to the US Navy, 4 August 1961

Place in service by the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS Schuyler Otis Bland (T-AK-277), 28 August 1961

Placed out of service in 1979 at Guam

Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown

Transferred to MARAD for disposal

Final Disposition, sold, 28 November 1979, for scrapping to China Dismantled Vessel Trading Corp. for $814,533.50

Specifications:
Displacement 10,516 t.
Length 478' 2"
Beam 66'
Draft 27'
Speed 18.5 kts.
Complement 50 CivMar
Largest Boom Capacity 50 t.
Bale Capacity 561,000 Cu ft
Armament none
Propulsion steam turbine

Size	Image Description	Source
396k	*Namesake* Schuyler Otis Bland (May 4, 1872 – February 16, 1950) was a United States Representative from Virginia. Born near Gloucester, Virginia, he attended the Gloucester Academy and the College of William and Mary. He was a teacher and a lawyer in private practice, and was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative William A. Jones. He was reelected to the Sixty-sixth and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses, serving from July 2, 1918 to February 16, 1950. While in the House, he was chair of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Seventy-third through Seventy-ninth Congresses and Eighty-first Congress). The United States Merchant Marine Academy Library is named in his honor. Bland died in Bethesda, Maryland and was interred in Greenlawn Cemetery, Newport News, Virginia. Photo courtesy of the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary.	Bill Gonyo
2771k	*USNS Schuyler Otis Bland* (T-AK-277) entering the Port of Wellington, New Zealand, 23 January 1978. Note the harbor pilot boat Tuna** coming out to meet the ship. Also note the line off the stern to a tug out of the picture.	Photo from the Chris Howell collection with copyright
187k	*USNS Schuyler Otis Bland* (T-AK-277)** under way, date and location unknown. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 86712. Courtesy of D. M. McPherson, 1978.	US Naval History and Heritage Command
34k	*USNS Schuyler Otis Bland* (T-AK-277)** under way, date and location unknown. US Navy photo.	Robert Hurst
324k	*USNS Schuyler Otis Bland* (T-AK-277)** under way, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from the cover of "Sealift Magazine", January 1964.	Salvatore Mercogliano
138k	*USNS Schuyler Otis Bland* (T-AK-277)** moored pierside, 20 March 1963, location unknown. US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 85031. Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.	Mike Green

USNS Schuyler Otis Bland (T-AK-277)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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