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T-AVB-3 Wright

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Tango - India - Romeo
 NTIR
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
National Defense Service Medal - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
Wright Class Aviation Logistics Support (Roll-on/Roll-off) Container Ship:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as SS Mormacsun a Maritime Commission type (C5-S-78) Ro-ro vessel under Maritime Administration contract (MA 224) for Moore-McCormack Lines, 1 June 1968, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Inc., Pascagoula, MS.
  • Launched, 1 July 1969
  • Delivered to the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 1 February 1970
  • Renamed SS Young America (date unknown)
  • Renamed Wright (T-AVB-3), 14 May 1986, and assigned to MARAD Ready Reserve Force (RRF), MSC PM-5 Sealift Program Office, Logistics Prepositioning Force
  • Wright provides support for Marine Corps helicopters and is maintained in reduced status ROS-5 (five day reactivation status) at Baltimore, MD.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,106 t(lt) 23,800 t(fl)
    Length 602'
    Beam 90'
    Draft 30'
    Speed 18.7 kts.
    Propulsion geared steam turbine, single propeller
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    Commercial Service
    Wright 74k Young America moored at Galveston, TX., October 1984. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Wright (T-AVB-3)
    Wright 60k Wright T-AVB-3) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 MSC web site
    Wright 57k Wright T-AVB-3) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Federation of American Scientists
    There is no DANFS history available for Wright (T-AVB-3) at Navsource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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