USNS Kilauea (T-AE 26), a typical contemporary ammunition ship

An ammunition ship is a warship specially configured to carry ammunition, usually for Navy ships and aircraft. Their cargo handling systems, designed with extreme safety in mind, include ammunition hoists with airlocks between decks, and mechanisms for flooding entire compartments with sea water in case of emergencies. They most often deliver their cargo to other ships using underway replenishment, using both connected replenishment and vertical replenishment. To a lesser extent, they transport ammunition from one shore-based weapons station to another. Diagrams of first and third rate warships, England, 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... Boxes of ammunition clog a warehouse in Baghdad Ammunition is a generic military term meaning (the assembly of) a projectile and its propellant. ... Underway Replenishment. ...

During World War II, U.S. Navy ammunition ships were converted from merchant ships or specially built on merchant ship hulls, often of type C2. They were armed, and were manned by Navy crews. Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Cargo ship or freighter is any sort of ship that carries goods and materials from one port to another. ...

Contemporary U.S. ammunition ships are specially designed for their mission, which also includes carrying dry and refrigerated cargo. They include facilities for carrying and landing large helicopters. These ships are unarmed and are manned by civilian crews.

During World War II, several ammunition ships were involved in spectacular explosions. Notable among them was USS Mount Hood (AE-11), which exploded in the Admiralty Islands on November 10, 1944. USS Mount Hood (AE-11) was built under Maritime Commission contract as Marco Polo, MC hull 1356, by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Co. ... The Admiralty Islands are a group of 18 islands in the Bismarck Archipelago. ... November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ...