USNS ''LTC John U.D. Page'' (AK-4496), was the lead ship of the built in 1985. The ship is named after

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Construction and commissioning

The ship was built in 1985 at the Daewoo Shipyard, Koje, Yeongnam. She was put into the service of United States Lines as ''American Utah'' and ''Irene D'' from 1985 until the company's bankruptcy in 1986. Sea-Land Service later acquired the ship in 1988 and put in service as ''Utah'' and ''Newark Bay'' until 2000. In October 2000, the ship was chartered by the

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for the

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and was put into the Prepositioning Program and the Maritime Prepositioning Ship Squadron 2 as MV LTC John U.D. Page (AK-4496) on 1 March 2001. In 2015, the ship left for scrap in Rotterdam, Netherlands by Sea2Cradlen and the recycling process was completed by 2016.

References

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