USS Nemasket
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USS Nemasket (AOG-10) was a Patapsco-class gasoline tanker in service with the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1959. She was scrapped in 2006.
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United States | |
Name | USS Nemasket |
Namesake | Nemasket River in Massachusetts |
Ordered | as T1-MT-M1 tanker hull |
Builder | Cargill, Inc., Savage, Minnesota |
Laid down | 6 October 1942 |
Launched | 20 October 1943 |
Commissioned | 16 June 1944 |
Decommissioned | 22 September 1959 |
Stricken | 1 July 1960 |
Fate | Disposed of by Scrapping, ESCO Marine, Brownsville, Tx 6 June 2006 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Patapsco-class gasoline tanker |
Tonnage | 2,210 tonnes deadweight (DWT) |
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Length | 310 ft 9 in (94.72 m) |
Beam | 48 ft 6 in (14.78 m) |
Draft | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
Propulsion | 4 × General Electric diesel-electric engines, twin shafts, 3,300 hp (2,461 kW) |
Speed | 15.5 knots (17.8 mph; 28.7 km/h) |
Complement | 131 |
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