Kalamazoo (AOR 6) - Naval Cruise Book

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With a capability of a sustained speed of 20 knots, the ship is able to operate independently or as a unit of a fast replenishment task group. KALAMAZOO lAOR-bl is the sec- ond ship to bear the name. The name KALAMAZOO was assigned to one ,J....A.-1 f--Ram. ...........1- -,.i.. 7 of four sea-going monitors authorized for construction in 1863. With one ex- ception, these were the largest war- ships ordered by the Navy during the Civil War. Kalamazoo was never com- pleted, she remained on the stoks un- til broken up in 1884. . f.p'.l I I L' ..zE. -fb-ZSKJ !L'-V931 5.1 1. 1a .12 IK .1 Q, .1.,1 .zq .1543 nf WV ...f eff At top, KALAMAZOO nears completion and prepares for her chistening and launching. Above, forty percent complete 25 july 1972. Left, laying the Keel 28 October 1970, KALAMAZOO QAOC-301 was actu- ally the first ship to bear the name. Built in 1944, she served as a tanker in the Pacific. Her first voyage took her from the West Indies to the Solomon Islands, thence Philippine Islands. She was decommissioned 1946.

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