title: SS Chesapeake
text: # SS Chesapeake
  
  The SS Chesapeake is a transport oiler that was in service with the United States Navy from 2000 to 2009. She was operated by Military Sealift Command.
  
  ## Construction and commercial service 1964–1987
  
  SS Chesapeake was built by the Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point Yard at Baltimore, Maryland, and delivered to the Hess Shipping Company on 29 October 1964. She entered commercial service with the company as the tanker SS Hess Voyager. She was renamed SS Chesapeake on 22 July 1980. She is a near exact twin to her sister ship SS Petersburg.
  
  ## Ready Reserve Force 1987–2000
  
  The U.S. Maritime Administration relieved Hess Shipping of Chesapeake under an exchange program on 15 December 1987. Chesapeake was then laid up in the Maritime Administration's Ready Reserve Fleet until 2000.
  
  ## Military Sealift Command Service 2000–2009
  
  Chesapeake was activated for service in the Military Sealift Command in 2000 as a transport oiler. Interocean Ugland Management Corporation of Voorhees, New Jersey, operates her with a civilian crew under contract to Military Sealift Command as a Common User Tanker as SS Chesapeake (AOT-5084).
  
  Other OPDS tankers are the SS American Osprey, SS Petersburg, and the SS Mount Washington. Chesapeake was removed from service in 2009 and was scrapped on 19 April 2021 at Brownsville.
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * SS Chesapeake, (T-AOT-5084), Chesapeake amidships view of SALM
  * SS Chesapeake, (T-AOT-5084), Chesapeake deck view of SALM
  * SS Chesapeake, (T-AOT-5084), Chesapeake deploying SALM
  