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<h3>Ship Name and Designation History</h3>
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Henry J. Kaiser Class Fleet Oiler<br/>
Keel Laid 21 November 1985 - Launched 17 January 1987<br/> 
Delivered to the US Navy 22 October 1987<br/><br/> 
<li>'''USNS ANDREW J. HIGGINS T-AO 190'''<br/>Placed in Service 1987<br/>
Placed out of Service 6 May 1996<br/><br/> 
Struck from the Naval Register 6 January 2009<br/><br/> 
<li>'''ALMIRANTE MONTT AO-52'''<br/>Sold to Chile 19 May 2009<br/>
Joined Chilean Navy after overhaul February 2010 
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<h3>Naval Covers</h3>
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<h3>Postmarks</h3>
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USPS Slogan<br/>Machine Postmark<br/><br>Long Beach, CA
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1988-02-12
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<h3>Other Information</h3>
USNS ANDREW J. HIGGINS T-AO-190 earned the Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon (3 awards), the Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Ribbon (4 awards), the National Defense Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and the Southwest Asia Service Medal during her Naval career.<br/><br/>
'''NAMESAKE''' - Andrew Jackson Higgins (28 August 1886 – 1 August 1952).<br/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Higgins was the founder and owner of Higgins Industries, the New Orleans-based manufacturer of "Higgins boats" (LCVPs) during World War II. The company started out as a small boat-manufacturing business, but later became one of the biggest industries in the world with upwards of eighty thousand workers and government contracts worth nearly three hundred fifty million dollars.
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