SEALIFT ARCTIC T-AOT 175

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Sealift Pacific Class Transport Tanker Keel Laid 1 February 1974 - Launched 1 August 1974 Delivered to Marine Transport Lines for charter to MSC 22 May 1975 USNS SEALIFT ARCTIC T-AO-175 Placed in service 22 May 1975 USNS SEALIFT ARCTIC T-AOT-175 Reclassified Transport Oiler (T-AOT) (30 September 1978) Placed out of service 4 April 1995 Struck from the Naval Register 4 April 1995 VANDOU (Commercial Service) Sold 4 April 1995 to Unideal Navitankers Management, Athens, Greece Scrapped in June 2000

 

Naval Covers

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1. USNS Sealift Arctic T-AOT-175 Covers Page 1      (DATE RANGE)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

USPS Machine Postmark Beaumont, TX

1991-09-03

Over ten years earlier, the ship had been redesignated as TAOT but its return address still shows TAO.

 

Other Information

USNS SEALIFT ARCTIC earned the National Defense Service Medal during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. Located mostly in the Arctic north polar region in the middle of the Northern Hemisphere, the Arctic Ocean is almost completely surrounded by Eurasia and North America

 

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