USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE-6) USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE-6) USNS "Amelia Earhart" (T-AKE-6), a "Lewis and Clark"-class dry cargo ship is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for noted American aviation pioneer and women's rights advocate Amelia Earhart (1897–1937). The contract to build the ship was awarded to National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) of San Diego, California, on 27 January 2004. Her keel was laid down at the end of May 2007 at General Dynamics' NASSCO shipyard. In early 2007, Alex Mandel along with members of the Amelia Earhart Society (AES) and Amelia Earhart Research Association (AERA) successfully petitioned
Last Flight (book) Twenty hours and forty minutes later, the three found themselves in Burryport, Wales, completing their TransAtlantic flight. Although she did no actual piloting, Earhart tells that she did gain a lot of experience and “even dearer than such opportunities” (Amelia Earhart and George Palmer Putnam married in 1931). Following the “Friendship” flight, Earhart performed in a variety of flying exhibitions, but her aviation career began its climax in 1929 when the first women’s derby took place. She along with various other female pilots seized this unprecedented opportunity and competed, but several plane complications ensued for most flyers. It was not