USS Salamonie
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United States | |
Name |
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Namesake | Salamonie River in Indiana |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, VA |
Laid down | 5 February 1940 |
Launched | 18 September 1940 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Eugene Holman |
Commissioned | 28 April 1941 |
Stricken | 2 September 1969 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping, 24 September 1970 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | oiler |
Displacement |
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Length | 553 ft (169 m) |
Beam | 75 ft (23 m) |
Draft | 32 ft 4 in (9.86 m) |
Installed power | 30,400 shp (22,669 kW) |
Propulsion | twin screws, steam (450 lbf/in2), NSFO |
Speed | 18 knots (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
Complement | 304 |
Armament |
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Service record | |
Operations: | World War II |
USS Salamonie (AO-26) was a
Salamonie was laid down on 5 February 1940 under a
Service history
World War II
After runs to various North American Atlantic Ocean ports, Salamonie got underway for her first overseas mission on 13 November 1942 in a large convoy headed for Casablanca, North Africa. Then, after several convoys to the United Kingdom the oiler was overhauled in Norfolk, Virginia, and fitted with radar.
On 12 February 1943 in the North Atlantic Salamonie suffered a steering fault and accidentally rammed the
Salamonie sailed for the Pacific Ocean via the
The sole war casualty on Salamonie was caused by a strafing run by a single Japanese plane on 5 January 1945.
Following the formal Japanese surrender, the oiler provided logistic services to the Shanghai occupation forces along the Huangpu River.
Post-war
Early in 1946 Salamonie returned to California for an overhaul at Long Beach Naval Shipyard; then sailed back across the Pacific. The next two and a half years were spent shuttling petroleum products between Bahrain in the Persian Gulf and United States naval bases in the Far East.
After returning to
In August and September 1958 Salamonie was part of Navy Task Force 88 (TF-88), during Operation Argus, which was involved in conducting nuclear tests in the very high atmosphere.
Toward the end of the 1960s she was designated for inactivation. Placed in reserve on 23 August 1968 and decommissioned on 20 December, Salamonie's name was struck from the
References
- ^ a b c Vinson, Bill; Casey, Ginger Quering. "S.S. Uruguay". Welcome Aboard Moore-McCormack Lines. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery of Salamonie at NavSource Naval History
- Official Website
- Wildenberg, Thomas (1996). Gray Steel and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea in the U.S. Navy, 1912–1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. Retrieved 28 April 2009.