MS Transpet

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For other ships with the same name, see USS Petaluma.
History
Name
  • Avoca
  • Petaluma
NamesakePetaluma River
Orderedas type (
MC
hull 2629
Awarded26 July 1944
BuilderSt. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[2]
Cost$1,022,203.48[1]
Yard number88
Way number6
Laid down14 February 1945
Launched5 May 1945
Completed1947
AcquiredAcquisition canceled, 26 August 1945
RenamedAvoca
IdentificationHull symbol: AOG-67
FateSold for commercial use, 30 April 1947
United States
NameTranspet
OwnerNational Petroleum Transport Corp.
FateSold, 1951
Panama
NameTranspet
Owner
British-American Oil Company
OperatorD.K. Ludwig
FateBurnt and sank, 1951
General characteristics [3]
Class and type
gasoline tanker
TypeType T1-MT-BT1 tanker
Displacement
  • 1,980 long tons (2,012 t) (light)
  • 5,970 long tons (6,066 t) (full load)
Length325 ft 2 in (99.11 m)
Beam48 ft 2 in (14.68 m)
Draft19 ft (5.8 m)
Installed power
Propulsion
  • 1 ×
    reduction gears
  • 1 × shaft
Speed10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Capacity
  • 10,465 bbl (1,663.8 m3) (Diesel)
  • 871,332 US gal (3,298,350 L; 725,536 imp gal) (Gasoline)
Complement80
Armament

MS Transpet was a

US Navy during World War II. She was named after the Petaluma River, in California
. Petaluma (AOG-69) was never commissioned into the US Navy.

Construction

Petaluma (AOG-69) was laid down on 14 February 1945, under a

US Navy was cancelled 26 August 1945.[2][1][4]

Petaluma was launched on 5 May 1945, and was about 85% complete when, due to the end of World War II, the ship's US Navy reassignment was canceled. Although initially restored to her original name of Avoca by her original owners, the unfinished ship was completed by the

Baltimore, Maryland, in October 1947, and sold to the National Petroleum Transport Corporation where she was renamed Transpet.[5][3]

Career

From 1947 until 1951, Transpet flew the US flag. In 1951 Transpet was registered under the

British-American Oil Company.[6]

On 29 October 1951, the tanker departed

Halifax, loaded with 1,500,000 imperial gallons (6,800,000 L) of gasoline and kerosene.[6][7] The following day, the ship suffered an explosion in the engine room while in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Two seamen were killed in the blast; the other eighteen members of the crew abandoned the sinking ship and were rescued by the British ship Ottinge and landed at North Sydney, Nova Scotia.[6]

In May 1954, the

Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company announced that its "sea scanar" device had located the wreck of Transpet at a depth of 120 feet (37 m) about 13 nautical miles (24 km) off Miscou Island. It was the first time the "sea scanar", which had been in use as a fish finder off the West Coast of the United States, had been used in a salvage operation and the first wreck located using it.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b MARCOM.
  2. ^ a b St. John's River SBC 2010.
  3. ^ a b Navsource.
  4. ^ DANFS.
  5. ^ "Transpet (5615779)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
  6. ^ a b c NYT-1951.
  7. ^ a b NYT-1954.

Bibliography

External links

Photo gallery of USS Petaluma (AOG-69) at NavSource Naval History

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