US SHIPS with
HISPANIC NAMES
USNS BENAVIDEZ
(T-AKR_306)
USS GONZALEZ
(DDG-66)
USNS MARTINEZ
(T-AP-187)
USNS VALDEZ
(T-AG-169)
USS GARCIA
(FF-1040)
USS VALDEZ
(FF-1096)
USNS CHAVEZ
(T-AKE-14)
USS PERALTA
(DDG 115)
Some Information courtesy of Wikipedia - more info here
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USNS Benavidez (T-AKR-306)
is a Bob Hope-class roll on roll off vehicle cargo ship of the United States Navy. She was built by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, New Orleans and delivered to the Navy on 10 September 2003. They assigned her to the United States Department of Defense's Military Sealift Command. The USNS Benavidez is named for Medal of Honor recipient Master Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez, and is one of 11 Surge LMSRs operated by a private company under contract to the Military Sealift Command. She is assigned to the MSC Atlantic surge force and is maintained in Ready Operational Status 4.
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Name: USNS Benavidez |
Operator: |
Military Sealift Command |
Builder: |
Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, New Orleans |
Laid down: |
15 December 1999 |
Launched: |
11 August 2001 |
Completed: |
10 September 2003 |
Identification: |
- IMO number: 9218210
- MMSI number: 368026000
- Callsign: NBHG
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Status: |
in active service |
General characteristics |
Class and type: |
Bob Hope-class roll on roll off vehicle cargo ship |
Displacement: |
- 35,500 t.(lt)
- 62096 t.(fl)
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Length: |
951 ft 5 in (290.0 m) |
Beam: |
106 ft (32.3 m) |
Draft: |
34 ft 10 in (10.6 m) maximum |
Propulsion: |
- 4 × Colt Pielstick 10 PC4.2 V diesels
- 65,160 hp(m) (47.89 MW)
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Speed: |
24 knots (44 km/h) |
Capacity: |
- 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m2)
- 49,991 sq ft (4,644.3 m2) deck cargo
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Complement: |
- 26 reduced / up to 45 full, civilian mariners
- 50 US Navy personnel
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On May 2, 1968, a 12-man Special Forces patrol, which included nine Montagnard tribesmen, was surrounded by an NVA infantry battalion of about 1,000 men. Benavidez heard the radio appeal for help and boarded a helicopter to respond. Armed only with a knife, he jumped from the helicopter carrying his medical bag and ran to help the trapped patrol. Benavidez "distinguished himself by a series of daring and extremely valorous actions... and because of his gallant choice to join voluntarily his comrades who were in critical straits, to expose himself constantly to withering enemy fire, and his refusal to be stopped despite numerous severe wounds, saved the lives of at least eight men.
On February 24, 1981, President Ronald Reagan presented Roy P. Benavidez with the Medal of Honor. Reagan turned to the press and said, "If the story of his heroism were a movie script, you would not believe it". |
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