USS Tamalpais
Tamalpais in 1945
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Tamalpais |
Namesake | Mount Tamalpais in California |
Builder | Marinship, Sausalito, California |
Laid down | 18 September 1944 |
Launched | 29 October 1944 |
Commissioned | 20 May 1945 |
Decommissioned | 21 June 1946 |
Stricken | 8 July 1946 |
Acquired | 10 March 1948 |
In service | 28 April 1950, as USNS Tamalpais (T-AO-96) |
Out of service | 1958 |
Stricken | 18 December 1967 |
Fate | Acquired by the US Army, 1966 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Escambia-class replenishment oiler |
Displacement |
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Length | 523 ft 6 in (159.56 m) |
Beam | 68 ft (21 m) |
Draft | 30 ft 10 in (9.40 m) |
Propulsion | Turbo-electric, single screw , 8,000 shp (5,966 kW) |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Capacity | 140,000 barrels (22,000 m3) |
Complement | 267 |
Armament |
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USS Tamalpais (AO-96) was a
Tamalpais was laid down at
World War II Pacific Theatre operations
The fleet oiler departed
End-of-war activity
Four days later, as hostilities in the Pacific were ending, she stood out of
On 4 March, Tamalpais departed Sasebo for Hong Kong, where she stayed almost two months. On 26 April, she sailed from Hong Kong to return to the United States. She transited the Panama Canal between 22 and 24 May and arrived in Mobile, Alabama, on the 28th. On 21 June 1946, she was decommissioned and returned to the War Shipping Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 8 July 1946.
Assigned to duty with MSTS
On 10 March 1948, Tamalpais was reacquired by the Navy, and she was operated by a civilian contractor for the Navy until 1 October 1949, when she was transferred to the
Transferred to the U.S. Army
On 3 June 1966, Tamalpais was turned over to the
References
- 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 USS Tamalpais (AO-96) at NavSource Naval History