USS Butte
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The second USS Butte (AE-27) was a Kilauea-class ammunition ship in the United States Navy. She was laid down 21 July 1966 by General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division at Quincy, Massachusetts, and was christened and launched 9 August 1967. She was commissioned on 14 December 1968 in the Boston Naval Shipyard and assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, originally homeported in Norfolk, Virginia.
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ship launching
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keel laying
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ship decommissioning
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AE-27 Butte - DPLA - 19de5055ffc6c9debb8a40f7391f7444
USS Butte (AE-27) under construction at the Fore River Shipyard c1967
USS Butte (AE-27) at sea c1970
AE-27 Butte and AE-26 Kilauea - DPLA - dfb4cf87dc148ae5290a0cf2e21d4dc9
USS Butte (AE-27)
Chaplain (LT.) Jane E. Feerer, right, takes part in a Jewish worship service aboard the ammunition ship USS BUTTE (AE-27) - DPLA - ba939c03703d305be20d1fba60273f17
(listed from bottom of frame to top) The US Navy's nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73), the conventional carrier USS AMERICA (CV 66), and the US Navys Ki - DPLA - bc8b290e70715ed84b3799aa0be5e456
A starboard bow view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69), ammunition ship USS BUTTE (AE-27), nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS VIRGINI - DPLA - f1c1263c51b7c7bc989d1d0c0435b6e7
USS Kilauea (AE-26) and USS Butte (AE-27) launch at Fore River Shipyard 1967
USS Butte (AE-27) with NATO ships in 1983
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