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USS Camden AOE2

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Photographer:
Michael Martin [ View profile ]
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Scrapyard Ships
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Oct 12, 2007
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The USS Camden (AOE-2) on 10 October 2007, already being taken apart at Esco Marine in the Port of Brownsville. This vessel is unique in that it has one half the propulsion system of the then unfinished and cancelled BB-66 Kentucky.

Keel Laid: February 17, 1964
Launched: May 29, 1965
Commissioning: April 1, 1967
Decommissioning: October 1, 2005
Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, N.J.
Propulsion System: four V2M 600 PSI Propulsion Boilers
Propellers: two
Length: 794 feet (242 meters)
Beam: 107 feet (32.6 meters)
Draft: 38 feet (11.6 meters)
Displacement: approx. 53,000 tons
Speed: 26 knots
Aircraft: two CH-46
Armament: one Sea Sparrow launcher, two Phalanx CIWS
Crew: 48 Officers, 678 Enlisted

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I am looking for updated pictures of the Camden and SAC being cut up. The last ones on here were dated mid Dec. 2007. Anyone got any newer pics???

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