USS Flint (AE-32/T-AE-32)
USS Flint (AE-32/T-AE-32)
$20 - 1.5â" x 5ishâ" round blanks
$15 - 3/4" x 3/4" x 5â" regular blanks
(Some have a slightly rounded corner)
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USS Flint (AE-32/T-AE-32) is a Kilauea-class ammunition ship of the United States Navy, and was named after the sparking rock flint (not, as is commonly thought, the city of Flint, Michigan). Flint was constructed at the Ingalls Nuclear Shipbuilding Division, Litton Industries, Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi. The ship was delivered to the United States Navy at Charleston, South Carolina, on 30 August 1971.
| Name: | USS Flint |
| Awarded: | 8 March 1968 |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 4 August 1969 |
| Launched: | 9 November 1970 |
| Acquired: | 30 August 1971 |
| Commissioned: | 20 November 1971 |
| Decommissioned: | 4 August 1995 |
| In service: | Transferred to Military Sealift Command 4 August 1995 |
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| Status: | Stricken 8 November 2013 in NDRF |
