USS Klickitat (AOG-64)

USS Klickitat (AOG-64), was the lead ship of the type T1 Klickitat-class gasoline tanker built for the US Navy during World War II. She was named after the Klickitat River, in Washington.

USS Klickitat (AOG-64) on 29 May 1946
History
Name: Klickitat
Namesake: Klickitat River
Ordered: as type (T1-M-BT1) hull, MC hull 2624
Awarded: 26 July 1944
Builder: St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1]
Cost: $1,022,203.48[2]
Yard number: 83
Way number: 3
Laid down: 16 December 1944
Launched: 24 March 1945
Sponsored by: Mrs. I. B. McDaniel
Commissioned: 14 July 1945
Decommissioned: 23 January 1946
Stricken: 7 February 1946
Identification:
Fate:
Status: Sold for commercial use, 20 August 1948
United States
Name: Captain
Owner: Manuel Rodriguez Trading Corp.
Fate: Wrecked and rebuilt, 1948
Status: Sold to Argentina, 14 June 1949
Notes: Sold to Argentina without cost
Argentina
Name: Punta Loyola
Namesake: Punta Loyola
Acquired: 14 June 1949
Stricken: 1984
Fate: Sold, 1968
Status: Renamed Alkene, wrecked, 1974
General characteristics [3]
Class and type: Klickitat-class gasoline tanker
Type: Type T1-MT-BT1 tanker
Displacement:
  • 1,980 long tons (2,012 t) (light)
  • 5,970 long tons (6,066 t) (full load)
Length: 325 ft 2 in (99.11 m)
Beam: 48 ft 2 in (14.68 m)
Draft: 19 ft (5.8 m)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed: 10 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)
Complement: 80
Armament:

Construction

Klickitat was laid down on 16 December 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2624, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; sponsored by Mrs. I. B. McDaniel; acquired by the US Navy and commissioned 14 July 1945, Lieutenant M. J. Seibert, USCG, in command.[1][2][4]

Service history

Departing Jacksonville, 28 July, Klickitat arrived Hampton Roads, Virginia, 31 July. After shakedown in the Chesapeake Bay, the gasoline tanker proceeded on 23 August, for Rockland, Maine, arriving 26 August. She returned to Norfolk, 3 September, and departed 23 November, with her sister ship Michigamme, for Houston, Texas. Arriving 2 December, she loaded a cargo of diesel oil, sailed 3 December, for the East Coast, and arrived Norfolk, 12 December. Remaining at Norfolk, Klickitat decommissioned 23 January 1946, and was returned to the Maritime Commission (MARCOM) 24 January. Her name was struck from the Navy List 7 February 1946.[4]

Klickitat was laid up in the James River Reserve Fleet, Lee Hall, Virginia, on 24 January 1946. On 20 August 1948, she was sold for commercial use to Manuel Rodriguez Trading Corp., and renamed Captain. Wrecked in 1948, she was rebuilt and sold to the Argentine Navy at no cost and renamed Punta Loyola.[3][5][4]

References
  1. St. John's River SBC 2010.
  2. MARCOM.
  3. Navsource.
  4. DANFS.
  5. MARAD.

Bibliography
  • "Klickitat". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • "USS Klickitat (AOG-64)". Navsource.org. 19 April 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  • "St. John's River Shipbuilding, Jacksonville FL". www.ShipbuildingHistory.com. 16 October 2010. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  • Maritime Administration. "Klickitat". Ship History Database Vessel Status Card. U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  • "USS Klickitat". Retrieved 12 February 2020.


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