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T-ACS-9 Green Mountain State

Keystone State Class Crane Ship):
  • Laid down, 2 December 1963, as the breakbulk ship, SS Mormacaltair, a Maritime Administration type (C6-S-60a) hull, under Maritime Administration contract (MA 143) at Ingalls Shipbuilding Inc., Pascagoula, MS.
  • Launched, 20 August 1964
  • Delivered to the Moore-McCormack Lines, 26 March 1965
  • Renamed SS American Altair (date unknown)
  • Reacquired by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) in 1987
  • Converted to a MARAD type hull (C6-S-MA60d) Crane Ship at National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA.
  • Assigned by the Maritime Administration to the Ready Reserve Force, (RRF), under operation control of the Military Sealift Command (MSC)
  • Placed in service as Green Mountain State (T-ACS-9), 15 March 1992
  • Green Mountain State was berthed at Bremerton, WA. and assigned to Maritime Prepositioning Ship Squadron Three and was maintained in a five-day readiness status
  • Removed from MSC control, withdrawn from the RRF by reassignment to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, 28 July 2006
    Specifications:
    Displacement 11,714 t.(lt) 31,500 t.(fl)
    Length 668' 6"
    Beam 76' 1"
    Draft 33' 5"
    Speed 20.4 kts.
    Cargo Capacity 300+ standard containers
    Complement Fully oppositional status 89 civilian mariners, Reserve operational status 10 civilian mariners
    Armament none
    Propulsion 2 boilers; 2 GE turbines; 19,250 hp; 1 shaft
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    Green Mountain State 56k Green Mountain State (T-ACS-9) moored pierside in a shipyard, date and place unknown. Note APL-44 moored to starboard of Green Mountain State.
    US Maritime Administration photo.    		 MARAD web site
    Green Mountain State 75k Green Mountain State (T-ACS-9) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 MSC web site
    There is no DANFS history available for Green Mountain State (T-ACS-9) at NavSource
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