combat store ship

Combat stores ships do not carry ammunition for resupply.

Saturn was one of five combat stores ships operated by Military Sealift Command.

The Mars-class combat stores ships were a class of seven auxiliary vessels of the United States Navy.

Modern combat store ships are operated by the United States Navy and the Royal Navy.

Combat stores ships (AK, AF, and AFS) were named after stars and other heavenly bodies.

Combat stores ships, or Storeships were originally a designation given to captured ships in the Age of Sail and immediately afterward, used to stow supplies and other goods for naval purposes.

USNS Sirius (T-AFS 8) was a Sirius-class combat stores ship of the United States Navy, named for Sirius (α Can.

During this period USNS Sirius (T-AFS-8) was upgraded to be able to conduct full operations as a combat stores ship and was included in the Fleet AFS rotation.

After initial shakedown, the new combat store ship loaded 2,500 tons of stores at Naval Supply Depot, Oakland, and through September completed final acceptance trials and post-shakedown availability at San Diego.

Combat stores ships provide underway replenishment of all types of supplies, ranging from repair parts to fresh food, clothing and mail via tensioned cargo rigs and CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters or their commercial equivalents.

'Lewis and Clark'-class ships will replace the existing fifteen Mars class combat stores ship and Sirius class combat store shipclass combat store ships and the s.

Six combat stores ships operated by Military Sealift Command provide supplies, including frozen, chilled and dry provisions, and propulsion and aviation fuel to United States Navy combatant ships that are at sea for extended periods of time.