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Ontonagon
T1-M-A2
Mattawee Class Gasoline Tanker:
Laid down, 10 May 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (T1-M-A2) tanker hull under Maritime
Commission contract (MC-1799), at East Coast Shipyard Inc., Bayonne, NJ;
Launched, 14 June 1944;
Commissioned USS Ontonagon (AOG-36), 21 September 1944, with a Coast Guard crew;
Decommissioned, 27 February 1946, at Mangle, PI; Custody transferred to the Army Transportation Service (ATS),
Commissioned USAT Ontonagon;
Struck from the Naval Register, 21 September 1946;
Decommissioned by ATS and returned to Naval custody, 1 July 1950;
Assigned to MSTS and placed In-service as USNS Ontonagon (T-AOG-36), 1952;
Placed Out-of-service, June 1954;
Laid up in the Reserve Fleet; Placed In-service by MSTS, 26 April 1956;
Placed Out-of-service, 25 September 1956;
Struck from the Naval Register, 13 November 1957;
Transferred to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet;
Final Disposition, fate unknown.
( See photos below )
Specifications:
Displacement 846 t.(lt) 2,270 t.(fl);
Length 220' 6";
Beam 37';
Draft 17';
Speed 10kts;
Complement 62;
Armament, one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 40mm guns, three single 20mm gun mounts;
Cargo DWT 1,228;
Propulsion, diesel direct drive, single screw, 720hp.
There is no DANFS History currently available for Ontonagon (AOG-36) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site,
the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
USNS Ontonagon (T-AOG-36) underway, date and place unknown.
USNS Ontonagon (T-AOG-36), underway, date and location unknown.
( Photo thanks to Stan Svec )