National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego
Laid down
22 May 1965
Launched
26 March 1966
Commissioned
29 April 1967
Decommissioned
September 1994
Homeport
San Diego, CA
Sasebo, Japan
Alameda, CA ( – Sep 1983)
Guam, (1983–1994)
Nickname(s)
The Fighting Falls
Fate
Transferred to Military Sealift Command, 23 September 1994.
Name
USNS Niagara Falls
In service
23 September 1994
Out of service
30 September 2008
Homeport
Guam, (1994–2008)
Nickname(s)
Fighting Falls
Fate
Sunk as a Target
General characteristics
Class and type
Mars-class combat stores ship
Displacement
17,500 long tons (17,781 t) full load
Length
581 ft (177.1 m)
Beam
79 ft (24.1 m)
Draft
27 ft (8.2 m)
Propulsion
3 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
1 × De Laval turbine, 1 shaft
Speed
20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement
As USS :
480–530 (with HC-5/3 Air Detachment)
As USNS :
49 Navy, 125 civilian merchant seamen
Armament
As USS :
4 × Twin 3"/50 caliber guns (2×2)
Later reduced to Two Forward Twin 3"/50 caliber guns[1]
Chaff launchers
4 × M2 12.7×99mm heavy machine guns
As USNS :
4 × M240G 7.62×51mm medium machine guns or M249 5.56×45mm light MG
1 M2 12.7×99mm heavy machine gun when security detachment is embarked
Aircraft carried
As USS :
2 × UH-46 Sea Knight helicopters HC-5 Providers
As USNS :
2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters HSC-25 Island Knights
USS Niagara Falls (AFS–3), a Mars-class combat stores ship, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named after the City of Niagara Falls, New York. Commissioned into the US Navy on 29 April 1967, she served until September 1994, when she was transferred to the US Military Sealift Command to serve as USNS Niagara Falls (T-AFS-3). Assigned to the Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force, Far East, she served until 30 September 2008, when she was finally deactivated.
Niagara Falls was designed to deliver refrigerated stores, dry provisions, technical spares, and general stores type matériel to the Fleet at sea. Her configuration provided for rapid issue rates using a minimum of men and the latest in transfer-at-sea methods, cargo handling, storage techniques, and automation. She was capable of simultaneous replenishment of one ship on each side as well as transfer of matériel by cargo helicopters, which she carried.
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Commanding Officer of USSNiagaraFalls from 21 June 1975 to 10 September 1976 and Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington from 25 May...
1971 to become the communications officer aboard the supply ship USSNiagaraFalls. Whitworth, who would become a Navy senior chief petty officer/senior...
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USS Sylvania, USSNiagaraFalls, USS San Diego, USS San Jose) Sirius class (USNS Sirius, USNS Spica) Fast combat support ships Sacramento class (USS Sacramento...
(USS Mars, USS Sylvania, USSNiagaraFalls, USS San Diego, USS San Jose) Sirius class (USNS Sirius, USNS Spica) Sacramento class (USS Sacramento, USS Seattle...
the Mist. Henry Hadley composed a cantata entitled Lelawala: A Legend of Niagara in 1898, in which the maiden Lelawala sacrifices herself to appease the...
before returning to sea to be replenished while underway by USS Caliente, USSNiagaraFalls and USS Mattaponi. She conducted local operations between the Philippines...
Retrieved 18 March 2019. "NiagaraFalls - The Scow and the Subchaser: a History". www.niagarafrontier.com. Retrieved 18 March 2019. "USS Sunbeam III". Archived...
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North Korean seizure of the USS Pueblo. Detachment 112 – UH-46 Sea Knight– Vertical Replenishment – aboard USSNiagaraFalls, two UH-46s, 22-24 crewmen...
Hanson was en route to Da Nang Harbor for replenishment with the USSNiagaraFalls that was anchored in the Da Nang Harbor. Vertical replenishment was...
water damage to the generators. Two US Navy ships, the USSNiagaraFalls (AFS-3) and the USS White Plains (AFS-4)—both naval supply ships—went aground...
Gendron described the sources of these stones as being at the base of NiagaraFalls and that a local Native American group settled there and traded this...
efforts before his death, 62 tons of medical supplies, arrived on the USSNiagaraFalls with the cooperation of Operation Hanclasp. The supplies were handed...
Years Assignments 1985–1987 USSNiagaraFalls, Agana, Guam: Damage Control Assistant 1988–1990 USS Rathburne, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Navigator 1990–1991...
NiagaraFalls Gorge Boat Tour from the Canadian side of the Niagara River near NiagaraFalls, similar to the Maid of the Mist cruises out of Niagara Falls...
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