USS WHITE PLAINS (AFS-4)

USS White Plains (AFS 4) USS White Plains (AFS 4)
Career
Laid down:	2 October 1965
Launched:	26 July 1966
Commissioned:	November 23 1968
Decommissioned:	April 17 1995
Fate:	disposed of as a target during RIMPAC 2002
Struck:	August 24 1995
General Characteristics
Displacement:	approx. 17,300 tons full load
Length:	581 feet (177.1 m)
Beam:	79 feet (24.1 m)
Draft:	25 feet (7.6 m)
Propulsion:	3 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 580 psi (3.7 MPa); 8250 °F (4400 °C); 1 De Laval turbine
Speed:	21 knots (24 mph, 39 km/h)
Complement:	42 Officers and 445 Enlisted
Armament:	none in peacetime
Aircraft:	2 × CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters

USS ''White Plains'' (AFS-4) was the forth Mars class combat stores ship of the United States Navy. USS ''White Plains'' was named after the Battle of White Plains during the American Revolutionary War.
She was laid down on 2 October 1965 by the National Steel & Shipbuilding Co. at San Diego, Calif.; launched on 26 July 1966; sponsored by Mrs. Bob Wilson; and commissioned at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard on 23 November 1968, Capt. Thomas B. Brenner in command.

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Notes and references

NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive ''AFS-4 White Plains''

See also

★ USS ''White Plains'' for other ships of the same name.