USS Willamette (AO-180)



Willamette with USS Duncan (FFG-10) before the jumboization, 1987
Career (USA)
Name: USS Willamette
Namesake: Willamette River
Builder: Avondale Shipyards
Laid down: 4 August 1980
Launched: 18 July 1981
Commissioned: 18 December 1982
Decommissioned: 30 April 1999
Struck: 30 April 1999
Status: Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet
General characteristics
Displacement: 36,977 tons full load
Length: 700 ft (210 m)
Beam: 88 ft (27 m)
Draft: 32 ft (9.8 m)
Propulsion: Steam Turbine
Speed: 20 kn (37 km/h)
Complement: 12 officers, 148 enlisted
Armament: 2 × 25 mm Cannons, 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS, 4 × 50 Cal. Machine Guns

The USS Willamette (AO-180) was the fourth ship in the Cimarron-class of fleet replenishment oilers for the United States Navy in service from 1981 to 1999.