USS Wabash (AOG-4)
USS Wabash (AOG-4) was a Patapsco-class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations.
USS Wabash | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Wabash |
| Namesake | Wabash River |
| Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down | 30 June 1942 |
| Launched | 28 October 1942 |
| Commissioned | 10 May 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 29 July 1946 |
| Stricken | 23 April 1947 |
| Fate | Transferred to the US Army Transportation Corps |
| Recommissioned | 1 June 1950, as T-AOG-4 |
| Decommissioned | 10 September 1957 |
| Stricken | 8 May 1958 |
| Fate | Disposed of by scrapping at Brownsville, Texas on 27 January 2006 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Patapsco-class gasoline tanker |
| Displacement | 4,335 long tons (4,405 t) full load |
| Length | 310 ft 9 in (94.72 m) |
| Beam | 48 ft 6 in (14.78 m) |
| Draft | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
| Propulsion | 4 × General Electric diesel-electric engines, twin shafts, 3,300 hp (2,461 kW) |
| Speed | 14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
| Complement | 140 |
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| Service record | |
| Operations: | World War II, Korean War |
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Wabash was laid down on 30 June 1942 at Seattle, Washington, by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 28 October 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Louis A. Puckett; and was commissioned at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, on 10 May 1943.
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