USNS ''Big Horn'' (T-AO-198) is a of the

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. ''Big Horn'', the twelfth ship of the ''Henry J. Kaiser'' class, was laid down at

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, Inc., at

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, on 9 October 1989 and launched on 2 February 1991. She entered non-commissioned U.S. Navy service under the control of the Military Sealift Command with a primarily civilian crew on 21 May 1992. She serves in the

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. This ship was one of several participating in disaster relief after the

2010 Haiti earthquake A catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, Ouest department, approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's c ...

. The ''Big Horn'' brought relief supplies to Haiti. During

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, ''Big Horn'' transferred 618 pallets of cargo and humanitarian assistance/disaster relief supplies and over 2,000,000 gallons of fuel. USNS ''Big Horn'' got underway from

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the day after the earthquake struck, arrived on scene in Haiti on January 17 and worked until being relieved by USNS ''Leroy Grumman'' on 11 February. In 2015, she refuelled RFA ''Gold Rover'' in the South Atlantic. HMS MONTROSE RAS with UCNS Big Horn MOD 45167841

HMS MONTROSE RAS with UCNS Big Horn MOD 45167841

References

External links

NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive: USNS Leroy Grumman (T-AO-195)

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