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USAV MG Robert Smalls (LSV-8)

International Radio Call Sign:
Alpha - Alpha - Bravo - Foxtrot
AABF

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Assigned to Army Reserve 203rd Transportation Detachment

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Specifications:
Displacement 6,000 t.
Length 314'
Beam 60'
Draft 12'
Speed 12 kts
Range 14,816

Complement

8 Officers

23 Enlisted

Cargo Capacity 2,000 short tons

Largest Boom Capacity unknown

Armament unknown

Fuel Capacity unknown

Propulsion

two Electro motive Diesel engines (EMD) 16-646E2 producing 1,950 horsepower each at 999rpm

two shafts

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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
30100803	121k	Namesake Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician, publisher, businessman, and maritime pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it. He then piloted the ship to the Union-controlled enclave in Beaufort–Port Royal–Hilton Head area, where it became a Union warship. His example and persuasion helped convince President Abraham Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers into the Union Army. After the American Civil War he returned to Beaufort where he was appointed a Major General in the South Carolina Militia and became a politician, winning election as a Republican to the South Carolina Legislature and the United States House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era. (Wikipedia)		Tommy Trampp
30100801 2007-09-17-065810	216k	USAV MG Robert Smalls (LSV-8) - the first Army vessel named for an African American - commissioning ceremony at Baltimore's historic Inner Harbor, 15 September 2007. US Army photo #'s 2007-09-17-095810 and 2007-09-17-056816 by Don Wagner		US Army Mil
30100802 2007-09-17-065186	183k
30100502	100k	USAV MG Charles P. Gross (LSV-5) (left) and USAV MG Robert Smalls (LSV-8) (right) with USAV Churubusco (LCU-2013) alongside, moored in the Persian Gulf, 9 November 2012. Photo taken by General125 (real name unknown)		Robert Hurst
30100804	54k	Karla Moore, the wife of Michael Moore, the great-great grandson of Robert Smalls, and her son, Robert, are pictured aboard USAV MG Robert Smalls (LSV-8) at Charleston Naval Weapons Station, 16 March 16, 2021 Photo by By Gavin McIntyre		Tommy Trampp
30100805	85k	USAV MG Robert Smalls (LSV-8) moored at Charleston Naval Weapons Station, 16 March 16, 2021 Photos by By Gavin McIntyre		Tommy Trampp
30100806	96k

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