Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages | home
Catawba / Neosho
Type : T2-SO
Neosho (AO-143) launching, 10 November 1953, Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, MA.( Photo National Archives )
USS Neosho (AO-48) at anchor, date and location unknown. Her camouflage scheme is MS32/6AO.( Photo thanks to Mike Green )
USS Neosho (AO-48) at anchor, date and location unknown. Her camouflage scheme is MS32/6AO.( Photo thanks to Mike Green )
Overhead view of USS Neosho (AO-143) underway, 1 May 1955.( Photo National Archives )
Neosho (AO-48), date and place unknown.
USS Neosho (AO-48).
( Art work by IAN HALL )
CATAWBA, T2-SO
HISTORY :
Built by Bethlehem Steel Co., Sparrows Point MD.
Yardnr. 4356. USMC nr. 145. Official nr. 241358.
Keel laid 08-07-1941. Launched 23-12-1941. Completed 12-2-1941. Gr. 9920 t., Net. 5928 t., Dw. 15850 t. L.o.a. 159,57 m., Br. 20,78 m., Dr. 9,19 m. Engine: 2 steam turbines, manufactured by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee. 12000 B.h.p., 8808 kW. Speed 15 knots. 26 tanks.
History:
CATAWBA-1941 completed for Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, New York, U.S.A.
CATAWBA-1942 Renamed Neosho 18 July.
CATAWBA-1942 Acquired by the Navy, 4 August.
CATAWBA-1942 Converted Naval service at Bethlehem Steel Co., Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA.
AO-48 NEOSHO-1942 Commissioned USS Neosho (AO-48), 16 September.
AO-48 NEOSHO-1945 Decommissioned, 13 December.
AO-48 NEOSHO-1946 Struck from the Naval Register, 3 January.
AO-48 NEOSHO-1946 Returned to the Maritime Commission, 30 June, at the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Lee Hall, VA.
AO-48 NEOSHO-1947 Sold by the Maritime Commission, 23 June, and renamed SS Tascalusa, returned to the Socony Vacuum Oil Co.
TASCALUSA-1947 for Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, New York, U.S.A.
TASCALUSA-1955 for Socony-Mobil Oil Co., Inc., New York, U.S.A.
TASCALUSA-1958 for Mobil Tankers Co., SA , New York, U.S.A.
Additional Reports :
Reported Ascalusa sold to shipbreakers in Germany. Broken up 7 Oct. 1963 Hamburg. [ By Eckhardt & Co. ]
|