USS Nanticoke (AOG-66)

USS Nanticoke (AOG-66), was a type T1 Klickitat-class gasoline tanker built for the US Navy during World War II. She was named after the Nanticoke River, in Delaware and Maryland.

For other ships with the same name, see USS Nanticoke.
History
Name: Nanticoke
Namesake: Nanticoke River
Ordered: as type (T1-M-BT1) hull, MC hull 2626
Awarded: 26 July 1944
Builder: St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1]
Cost: $1,022,203.48[2]
Yard number: 85
Way number: 1
Laid down: 16 January 1945
Launched: 7 April 1945
Commissioned: 1 September 1945
Decommissioned: 4 January 1946
Stricken: 21 January 1946
Identification:
Fate:
Status: Sold for commercial use, 8 June 1948
United States
Name: Sugarland
Owner: American Petroleum Transport Corp.
Fate: Sold to Argentina, December 1946
Argentina
Name: Punta Delgada
Namesake: Punta Delgada
Stricken: 1984
Identification: Hull symbol: B-16
Status: Caught fire and capsized, 4 March 1985
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

Nanticoke was laid down on 16 January 1945, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2626, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; sponsored by Mrs. Gustav W. Nelson; acquired by the Navy 31 August 1945; and commissioned 1 September 1945.[1][2][4]

Service history

Assigned to the Naval Transportation Service, Nanticoke reported for duty on 18 October, to the Service Force, US Atlantic Fleet. Arriving at Norfolk, Virginia, on 28 November, she was decommissioned there on 4 January 1946, and returned to MARCOM on 12 January 1946.[4]

Briefly operated by the American Petroleum Transport Corporation as MV Sugarland in 1946, she was acquired later in the year by the Argentine Navy and commissioned as ARA Punta Delgada (B–16). She served as part of the Argentine Navy until 1984, when she burnt and sank off La Plata, 4 March 1985.[3][5]

References
  1. St. John's River SBC 2010.
  2. MARCOM.
  3. Navsource 2014.
  4. DANFS.
  5. MARAD.

Bibliography
  • "Nanticoke". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 11 February 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • "USS Nanticoke (AOG-66)". Navsource.org. 19 December 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  • "St. John's River Shipbuilding, Jacksonville FL". www.ShipbuildingHistory.com. 16 October 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  • Maritime Administration. "Nanticoke". Ship History Database Vessel Status Card. U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  • "USS Nanticoke". Retrieved 11 February 2020.


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