USNS Concord

For other ships with the same name, see USS Concord.

USNS Concord (T-AFS-5), June 2007
History
United States
Name	USS Concord
Namesake	Concord, Massachusetts, location of the Battle of Concord
Ordered	18 December 1964
Builder	National Steel and Shipbuilding Company
Laid down	26 March 1966
Launched	17 December 1966
Acquired	21 November 1968
Commissioned	17 November 1968 as USS Concord (AFS-5)
Decommissioned	15 October 1992
In service	15 October 1992
Out of service	18 August 2009
Reclassified	USNS Concord (T-AFS-5)
Stricken	18 August 2009
Fate	Sunk as a target, 17 July 2012
General characteristics
Class and type	Mars class combat stores ship
Displacement	9,200 tons (light) 15,900-18,663 tons (full)
Length	581 ft (177 m)
Beam	79 ft (24 m)
Draft	27 ft (8.2 m)
Propulsion	3 × 580psi Babcock & Wilcox boilers, one De Laval turbine, single shaft
Speed	20 knots
Complement	Officers: 48; enlisted: 441
Armament	2 × twin 3 in (76 mm) gun mounts
Armor	3.15 in
Aircraft carried	2 × UH-46 Sea Knight helicopters

USS Concord (AFS-5), was a Mars-class combat stores ship, in service with the United States Navy from 1968 to 1992. Concord became the first of five ships of its class to be transferred to Military Sealift Command. The transfer was completed in October 1992 and she was redesignated USNS Concord (T-AFS-5). Concord was stricken in August 2009 and sunk as a target in 2012.

History

Concord was laid down on 26 March 1966 at the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in San Diego, California. The ship was launched on 17 December 1966 and commissioned on 27 November 1968. On 18 August 1992, Concord was decommissioned and transferred to Military Sealift Command, and assigned to the Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force (PM1), MSC Far East.

USS Concord (AFS-5) at Trieste, Italy in 1983

After being stricken on 18 August 2009, Concord was sunk at 16:12 hrs (UTC-10) on 17 July 2012 as part of the SINKEX portion of Rim of the Pacific naval exercises. She was struck by a Mark 48 torpedo fired from HMCS Victoria and settled in water 15,390 feet (4,690 meters) deep, 61 nautical miles (113 kilometres) from the coast of Kauai, Hawaii.

References

•  This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.