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T-AO / T-AOT-183 Neches

Falcon Class Transport Tanker:
  • Laid down in 1971 as Falcon Duchess for Falcon Carriers at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS.
  • Launched in 1971
  • Leased by the US Navy and assigned to the Military Sealift Command (MSC)
  • Placed in service as USNS Neches (T-AO-183) (date unknown)
  • Reclassified a Transport Oiler, T-AOT (date unknown)
  • Placed out of service in 1983
  • Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown)
  • Returned to her owners
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1983
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    Neches 47k Neches (T-AOT-183) in the Kiel Canal, Germany, March 1980. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    There is no DANFS history available for Neches (T-AO-183 / T-AOT-183) at NavSource
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