Wichita-class replenishment oilers comprised a class

Ship class

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 of seven replenishment oiler

Replenishment Oiler

A replenishment oiler or fleet tanker is a naval auxiliary ship with fuel tanks and dry cargo holds, which can replenish other ships while underway in the high seas. Such ships are used by several countries around the world....

s used by the United States Navy

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 from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. During this time the ships were commissioned

Ship commissioning

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 naval auxiliaries with the hull classification

Hull classification symbol

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 AOR. The ships were designed for rapid underway replenishment

Underway replenishment

Underway replenishment or replenishment at sea is a method of transferring fuel, munitions, and stores from one ship to another while under way.-History:...

 using both connected replenishment and vertical replenishment. The ships could carry 160,000 barrels of petroleum fuel, 600 tons of munitions, 200 tons of dry stores and 100 tons of refrigerated stores.

With the reduction in the U.S. Navy fleet, these ships were all decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register

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 (NVR) in the 1990s.

One earlier ship of the AOR type, but not of this class, was the USS Conecuh (AOR-110), in service with the U.S. Navy 1946–56.

Ships

Ship	Hull No.	Builder	Home Port	Commissioned– Decommissioned	NVR page
Wichita USS Wichita (AOR-1) USS Wichita was the lead ship of the s. She was the second ship to be named for the city of Wichita, Kansas.The second Wichita was laid down on 16 June 1966 at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division; launched on 16 March 1968; sponsored by Mrs. Howard B....	AOR-1	General Dynamics, Quincy	Oakland Naval Supply Depot, Oakland Naval Supply Depot, Oakland was a supply facility operated by the U.S. Navy in Oakland, California. During World War II, it was a major source of supplies and war materials for ships operating in the Pacific....	1969–1993	AOR-1
Milwaukee USS Milwaukee (AOR-2) |...	AOR-2	General Dynamics, Quincy	Norfolk Naval Station Norfolk Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Virginia, is a base of the United States Navy, supporting naval forces in the United States Fleet Forces Command, those operating in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean...	1969–1994	AOR-2
Kansas City USS Kansas City (AOR-3) |...	AOR-3	General Dynamics, Quincy	Oakland	1970–1994	AOR-3
Savannah	AOR-4	General Dynamics, Quincy	Norfolk	1970–1995	AOR-4
Wabash USS Wabash (AOR-5) USS Wabash was a in the United States Navy from 1970 to 1994.The Wabash was named for the Wabash River, a river that rises in Darke County, Ohio, near Fort Recovery and meanders westward across Indiana until it reaches Illinois at a point just southwest of Terre Haute.USS Wabash was laid down on...	AOR-5	General Dynamics, Quincy	Long Beach Long Beach Naval Shipyard thumb|right|300px|Long Beach Naval Shipyard in 1993The Long Beach Naval Shipyard, which closed in 1997, was located at Terminal Island between the city of Long Beach and the San Pedro district of Los Angeles and approximately 23 miles south of the Los Angeles International Airport.The Long Beach...	1971–1994	AOR-5
Kalamazoo	AOR-6	General Dynamics, Quincy	Norfolk	1973–1996	AOR-6
Roanoke USS Roanoke (AOR-7) |...	AOR-7	National Steel National Steel and Shipbuilding Company National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, commonly referred to as NASSCO, is a shipyard in San Diego, California and Norfolk, Virginia and a division of General Dynamics. The shipyard specializes in constructing commercial cargo ships and auxiliary vessels for the US Navy and Military Sealift...	Long Beach	1976–1995	AOR-7