High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The third US Navy vessel named after Mount Rainier, USNS Rainier is the second ship in the Supply class of fast combat support ships. On September 28, 1991, the ship`s sponsor - Mrs. Suzanne Callison Dicks, a most gracious lady and wife of The Honorable Norm Dicks - christened `AOE-7` as Rainier. Rainier was commissioned on January 21, 1995 at Bremerton, Washington - Captain Thomas P. Danaher, USN, commanding.