USAV Gen. Brehon B. Somervell (LSV 3) approaches the surf zone as it comes alongside the elevated causeway system at Red Beach
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Namesake | Brehon B. Somervell |
Builder | VT Halter Marine, Gulfport, Mississippi |
Acquired | 19 September 1987 |
Homeport | Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam (JBPHH) Honolulu, HI |
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Status | in active service, as of 2013 [update] |
General characteristics | |
Type | Logistics Support Vessel |
Displacement | 4,199 long tons (4,266 t) |
Length | 273 ft (83 m) |
Beam | 60 ft (18 m) |
Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × EMD 16-645E2; 1,950 hp (1,450 kW) each |
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Complement | 8 warrant officers, 23 enlisted |
USAV General Brehon B. Somervell (LSV-3) is a General Frank S. Besson-class logistics support vessel. [1] The ship was built by VT Halter Marine, [2][ failed verification] (formerly Moss Point Marine) of Gulfport, Mississippi. [3] It is named for General Brehon B. Somervell, the Commanding General of the United States Army Service Forces in World War II.
The vessel is currently home-ported in Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam (JBPHH), Hawai’i and is assigned to the 8th Special Troops Battalion, 8th Theater Sustainment Command [4][ failed verification] [5][ unreliable source?]
In 1994 the vessel transported Save the PT Boat, Inc.'s PT-658 up the Columbia River to Portland, Oregon. [6]