SEALIFT ARABIAN SEA T-AOT 169

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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 March 1973 - Launched 1 January 1974
    Delivered to Marine Transport Lines for charter to MSC 6 May 1975

  1. USNS SEALIFT ARABIAN SEA T-AO-169
    Placed in service 6 May 1975

  2. USNS SEALIFT ARABIAN SEA T-AOT-169
    Reclassified a Transport Oiler (T-AOT) (30 Sep 1978)
    Placed out of service 2 March 1995

    Struck from the Naval Register 2 March 1995
    Sold for commercial service 2 March 1995, to Unideal Navitankers Management, Athens, Greece
            renamed MT SOPHILL, re-flagged Panamanian
    Final Disposition, scrapped in 2000

Naval Covers

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  1. USNS Sealift Arabian Sea T-AOT-169 Covers Page 1     (DATE RANGE)

 

Postmarks

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A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.


 

Postmark Type
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Killer Bar Text

Postmark
Date		 Thumbnail Link
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Postmark Image		 Thumbnail Link
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Cover Image



 

USPS
Machine Postmark

Long Beach, CA

1981-01-11

The ship had been redesignated as TAOT several years earlier, but the return address stamp still showed TAO.


 

USPS Slogan
Machine Postmark

Hampton Roads, VA

1984-11-17

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Other Information

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

NAMESAKE - The Arabian Sea is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by northeastern Somalia and the Arabian Peninsula, and on the east by India.

 

 

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