View source for USS Essex (NCC-173)

==Facts==

* Name: USS Essex
* Registry: NCC-173
* Class: [[Daedalus (class)|Daedalus]]
* Fleet: [[UESPA]], [[Starfleet]]
** Originally part of [[Earth Starfleet]] prior to [[Federation]] incorporation
* Complement
** October 2165: 116 (ENT Novel: ''Live by the Code'')
* Commissioned: 2141
* Launched: 2152
* Initial refit: 2156
* Second refit: 2161
* 2161: Assigned to [[Starbase 8]] operating fleet (ENT Novel: ''Uncertain Logic'')
* September 2165: Transferred to [[Starbase 12]] operating fleet (ENT Novel: ''Live by the Code'')
* Lost: 2167; wreckage discovered by [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)|USS Enterprise]], 2368 (TNG: "Power Play")
** Vessel caught in electromagnetic storm in orbit of [[Mab-Bu VI A]] during attempted prison escape, lost with all hands

==Crew==
===Command crew===
* Commanding officer
**  - 2162 - 2167: [[Bryce Shumar]]
* Executive officer
**  - 2162 - 2166: [[Caroline Paris]]
** 2166 - 2167: [[Steven Mullen]]

===Department heads===
* Armory officer
**  - 2162 - 2165: [[Ahn Chung-hee]]
** 2165 - 2167: [[Morgan Kelly]]
* Chief medical officer
** - 2165 - : Doctor [[Mazril]]
* Chief science officer
**  - 2162 - 2166: [[Steven Mullen]]
** 2166 - 2167: [[Alvaro Coelho]]

===Bridge staff===
====Alpha shift====
* Communications officer
**  - 2162 - 2165 - : [[Miguel Avila]]
* Helmsman
** - 2165: [[NFN Ling (USS Essex)|NFN Ling]]
** 2165 - : [[Melissa Moy]]
====Gamma shift====
* Armory officer
** 2165 - 2166 - : [[Jamala Mahendra]]

===Science division===

* Supervising lab technician
**  - 2166: [[Alvaro Coelho]]

===Service division===

*  - 2165 - 2166: [[Melina NLN]] - Chef

===Unknown===

*  - 2166 - : [[NFN Roget]] - Pilot

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