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Patoka-class Oiler
The ''Patoka''-class oilers were a series of eight fleet replenishment oiler A replenishment oiler or replenishment tanker is a naval auxiliary ship with fuel tanks and dry cargo holds which can supply both fuel and dry stores during underway replenishment (UNREP) at sea. Many countries have used replenishment oilers. The ...s built for the United States Navy after World War I. All but one of the vessels were commissioned between 1919 and 1922, and all were held in various states until the eve of World War II, where all served with the Navy for the duration of the war. All eight survived the war, after which they were decommissioned and scrapped. Ships in class * ''Patoka'' (AO-9) * ''Sapelo'' (AO-11) * ''Ramapo'' (AO-12) * ''Trinity'' (AO-13) * ''Rapidan'' (AO-18) * ''Salinas'' (AO-19) * ''Sepulga'' (AO-20) * ''Tippecanoe'' (AO-21) References * Auxiliary replenishment ship classes Auxiliary ship classes of the United States Navy Patoka class oiler Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Sapelo (AO-11)
USS ''Sapelo'' (AO-11) was a of the United States Navy. Laid down on 3 May 1919 for the United States Shipping Board by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, the ship was launched on 24 December 1919, transferred to the Navy on 30 January 1920, and commissioned on 19 February 1920. Service history 1920–1933 After carrying fuel oil from Texas ports to shore stations in Panama, Cuba, and on the east coast, ''Sapelo'' completed her first transatlantic run, to the Firth of Clyde with oil for the British Admiralty, in June 1920. On her return, she remained in American waters through mid-August; then loaded fuel oil, gasoline, and stores for store ships and shore stations supporting United States Navy ships operating in Adriatic and Turkish waters. During September, she delivered cargo at Constantinople, Constanţa, Venice, and Split. From there, she proceeded to Brest where she received American war dead to return to the United States. On 29 Oct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auxiliary Ship Classes Of The United States Navy
Auxiliary may refer to: * A backup site or system In language * Auxiliary language (other) * Auxiliary verb In military and law enforcement * Auxiliary police * Auxiliaries, civilians or quasi-military personnel who provide support of some kind to a military service ** Auxiliaries (Roman military) In religion * Auxiliary bishop, in the Roman Catholic Church * Auxiliary organization (LDS Church) In technology * Auxiliary input jack and auxiliary cable, generally for audio; frequently associated with mobile device audio * Aux-send of a mixing console * An auxiliary Port is a common port found on many Cisco routers for CLI access. Other uses * Auxiliary route, also known as "special route", in road transportation ** An auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System in the United States * Auxiliary ship is a naval vessel designed to operate in support of combat ships and other naval operations * Auxiliary (fraternity or sorority) * A marching band color guard See al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auxiliary Replenishment Ship Classes
Auxiliary may refer to: * A backup site or system In language * Auxiliary language (other) * Auxiliary verb In military and law enforcement * Auxiliary police * Auxiliaries, civilians or quasi-military personnel who provide support of some kind to a military service ** Auxiliaries (Roman military) In religion * Auxiliary bishop, in the Roman Catholic Church * Auxiliary organization (LDS Church) In technology * Auxiliary input jack and auxiliary cable, generally for audio; frequently associated with mobile device audio * Aux-send of a mixing console * An auxiliary Port is a common port found on many Cisco routers for CLI access. Other uses * Auxiliary route, also known as "special route", in road transportation ** An auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System in the United States * Auxiliary ship is a naval vessel designed to operate in support of combat ships and other naval operations * Auxiliary (fraternity or sorority) * A marching band color guard See als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Tippecanoe (AO-21)
USS ''Tippecanoe'' (AO-21) was a Replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. Construction and commissioning ''Tippecanoe'' was laid down on 1 October 1919 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.; launched on 5 June 1920; delivered to the United States Shipping Board late that year; and acquired by the Navy at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 6 March 1922. Service history ''Tippecanoe'' remained inactive at Mare Island for almost two decades before she was finally placed in commission on 6 March 1940. The oiler was assigned to Squadron 8, Base Force Train, and operated between the west coast and the Hawaiian Islands for the next two years. Her most frequent ports of call were Pearl Harbor, San Pedro, San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, fortune ordained that ''Tippecanoe'' be safe in San Francisco. During the first three months of the war, the oiler steamed up and down the west co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Sepulga (AO-20)
''Fleetco'', a Replenishment oiler built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, for the United States Shipping Board (E.F.C. 1639), was launched on 21 April 1920; transferred to the Navy by Executive Order on 17 October 1921; renamed USS ''Sepulga'' (AO-20) on 2 November 1921; delivered to the Navy at Mare Island, California, on 13 December 1921. Service history Commissioned on 13 January 1922, ''Sepulga'' was decommissioned on 15 April 1922, and laid up at Mare Island for the next 18 years. She was re-commissioned on 5 February 1940 and in March, she commenced operations for the Naval Transportation Service. Based at San Pedro, she carried fuel, general cargo, and passengers from the west coast to Guam, the Philippines, Wake Island, Midway, and Hawaii during the remaining months of peace in the Pacific. On 7 December, she was en route from San Pedro to Pearl Harbor. At mid-month, she arrived in Hawaii, where she delivered fuel to ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Salinas (AO-19)
USS ''Salinas'' (AO-19), a United States Navy replenishment oiler, was laid down for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) as ''Hudsonian'' (219592) on 10 April 1919 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia; launched on 5 May 1920; accepted by the USSB on 13 May 1920; transferred to the Navy on 29 October 1921; renamed ''Salinas'' and designated AO-19 on 3 November 1921; and commissioned at Mobile, Ala., on 16 December 1921. Service history Assigned to the Naval Transportation Service, ''Salinas'' was initially in commission for only a little over six months. She was decommissioned at Norfolk on 20 June 1922 and remained in reserve until recommissioned at Norfolk on 12 June 1926. The following September, she commenced carrying fuel from naval fuel depots and Caribbean and Texas oil ports to Navy bases and stations on the east and west coasts, in the Caribbean, in the Panama Canal Zone, and, in the late 1920s, to Marine Corps units in Nicarag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Rapidan (AO-18)
USS ''Rapidan'' (AO-18), was a US Navy tanker of World War II. Rapidan was built under U.S. Shipping Board contract by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia. It was launched on 25 October 1919 transferred to the Navy in October 1921; and commissioned as a US Navy vessel on 1 January 1922. Assigned to the Naval Transport Service, ''Rapidan'' remained in commission for only 6 months, most of which was spent at Norfolk. ''Rapidan'' was decommissioned on 22 June 1922 and was berthed with the James River Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, until it was recommissioned on 22 January 1940. For the 18 months following her second commissioning, ''Rapidan'' carried fuel from the Texas oil ports to ships and stations in the Caribbean and along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Between September 1941 and November 1942, she supplied petroleum products to Atlantic Fleet units at Halifax, Canada, Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland, Reykjavík and Hvalfjörður in Ice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Trinity (AO-13)
USS ''Trinity'' (AO-13) was a -class replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. Construction and commissioning ''Trinity'' was laid down on 10 November 1919 at Newport News, Virginia by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company; launched on 3 July 1920 and commissioned on 4 September 1920. Service history Pre-World War II 1920–1923 Following shakedown, ''Trinity'' got underway from Chesapeake Bay on 11 February 1921, bound for the Mediterranean. She arrived at Valletta, Malta and delivered general stores for USS ''Pittsburgh'' (CA-4) before proceeding to Split, Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia), with fuel oil for American ships operating in the Adriatic. After a three-day layover at Split, she got underway on 8 March for Venice, where she arrived on 12 March. She eventually called at Pula (then in Italy, now in Croatia), before making port at Brindisi to take on fuel oil and general supplies for the naval base at Constantinople, Turkey, and American naval forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Ramapo (AO-12)
USS ''Ramapo'' (AO-12), was a replenishment oiler. It was built under U.S. Shipping Board contract, was laid down on 16 January 1919 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia; launched on 11 September 1919; and commissioned on 15 November 1919. Service history Assigned to Caribbean shuttle runs after commissioning, ''Ramapo'' carried petroleum products from Port Arthur, Texas, to Guantanamo Bay and the Canal Zone until April 1920. Through 1922, ''Ramapo'' was employed to deliver fuel to ships and bases on the US Gulf and East coasts and in European waters. Transferred to the Pacific in 1922, ''Ramapo'' carried oil to ships and stations of the Pacific Fleet and made occasional trips to the Canal Zone and to the east coast until mid-1928, when the tanker began to supply the Asiatic Fleet on a regular schedule. Beginning on 21 June, she carried oil from San Pedro to the Philippines and China and, for the next nine years, averaged four round-trip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Patoka (AO-9)
USS ''Patoka'' (AO–9/AV–6/AG–125) was a replenishment oiler made famous as a Ship's tender, tender for the airships , and . It was also notable in that its height () figured prominently in the design of the Rainbow Bridge (Texas), Rainbow Bridge in Texas (the bridge design required that the ''Patoka'', then the tallest ship in the U.S. Navy, could sail under it; however, it never did). Construction and commissioning Named for the Patoka River, ''Patoka'' was laid down on 17 December 1918 by the Northrop Grumman Newport News, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Newport News, Virginia and launched on 26 July 1919. Acquired by the Navy from the United States Shipping Board on 3 September 1919, and commissioned on 13 October 1919. 1920s and 1930s Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, ''Patoka'' departed Norfolk on 4 November 1919 for Port Arthur, Texas, where she loaded fuel oil and sailed for Scotland, arriving on the Clyde on 6 December. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northrop Grumman Newport News
Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the largest industrial employer in Virginia, and sole designer, builder and refueler of United States Navy aircraft carriers and one of two providers of U.S. Navy submarines. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both naval and commercial ships. Located in the city of Newport News, its facilities span more than , strategically positioned in one of the great harbors of the East Coast. The shipyard is a major employer, not only for the lower Virginia Peninsula, but also South Hampton Roads, portions of Hampton Roads south of the James River (Virginia), James River and the harbor, portions of the Middle Peninsula region, and even some northeastern counties of North Carolina. The shipyard is building the s and . In 2013, Newport News Shipbuilding began the deactivation of the first nuclear-powered aircraft c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
