USS Salinas
US Navy Patoka-class replenishment oiler / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Salinas (AO-19), a United States Navy Patoka-class replenishment oiler, was laid down for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) as Hudsonian (219592) on 10 April 1919 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia; launched on 5 May 1920; accepted by the USSB on 13 May 1920; transferred to the Navy on 29 October 1921; renamed Salinas and designated AO-19 on 3 November 1921; and commissioned at Mobile, Ala., on 16 December 1921.
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Salinas (AO-19), one of the older generation of Navy oilers, riding light in the water with much of her dark red bottom paint showing. Unlike later ships of this type, she does not have the extensive equipment required for underway replenishment. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Salinas |
Namesake | Salinas River |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia |
Laid down | 10 April 1919 |
Launched | 5 May 1920 |
Acquired | 29 October 1921 |
Commissioned | 16 December 1921 |
Decommissioned | 20 June 1922 |
Recommissioned | 12 June 1926 |
Decommissioned | 16 January 1946 |
Stricken | 26 February 1946 |
Fate | Sold to a private shipping company |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Patoka Replenishment oiler |
Displacement | 16,800 long tons (17,070 t) |
Length | 477 ft 10 in (145.64 m) |
Beam | 60 ft (18 m) |
Draft | 26 ft 2 in (7.98 m) (mean) |
Speed | 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) |
Complement | 87 |
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