Advanced Auxiliary Dry Cargo Ships (T-AKE)
- USNS Lewis and Clark (T-AKE-1)
- USNS Sacagawea (T-AKE-2)
- USNS Alan Shepard (T-AKE-3)
- USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE-4)
- USNS Robert E. Peary (T-AKE-5)
- USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE-6)
- USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE-7)
- USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE-8)
- USNS Matthew Perry (T-AKE-9)
- USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE-10)
- USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11)
- USNS William McLean (T-AKE-12)
- USNS Medgar Evers (T-AKE-13)
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