SS Chesapeake (AOT-5084)

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 Administrations 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 "Petersburg", and the SS "Mount Washington". "Chesapeake" was removed from service in 2009 and resides in the Beaumont Reserve Fleet.