USS Nanticoke (AOG-66)
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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.
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United States | |
Name | Nanticoke |
Namesake | Nanticoke River in Delaware and Maryland |
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 |
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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 |
Fate | Caught fire and capsized, 4 March 1985 |
General characteristics [3] | |
Class and type | Klickitat-class gasoline tanker |
Type | Type T1-MT-BT1 tanker |
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Length | 325 ft 2 in (99.11 m) |
Beam | 48 ft 2 in (14.68 m) |
Draft | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
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Speed | 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
Capacity | |
Complement | 80 |
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