Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages     |   home Index Sachem (I) T3-S-A1 Chiwawa Class Fleet Oiler: Laid down, as Sachem, a Maritime Commission type (T3-S-A1) tanker hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 517) at Bethlehem Steel Shipbuilding, Sparrows Point, MD. Launched (date unknown) Acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission, and commissioned USS Enoree (AO-69), 23 January 1943 Decommissioned, 27 March 1947 Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet Recommissioned, 18 October 1950 and assigned to the Naval Transport Service (NTS) Custody assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS), early-April 1951 Decommissioned, 10 December 1954 Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group Placed in service by MSTS, 10 December 1956, as USNS Enoree (T-AO-69) Placed out of service, 22 October 1957 Struck from the Naval Register, 1 February 1959 Transferred to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, TX. Final Disposition, sold for scrapping to Luria Brother and Co., Cleveland, OH., Scrapped at Brownsville, TX. ( See photos below ) Specifications: Displacement 5,650 t.(lt) 21,077 t.(fl) Length 502' 6" Beam 68' Draft 31' Speed 17 kts. Complement 13 officers 200 enlisted Armament one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four 3"/50 guns, four twin 40mm gun mounts, four twin 20mm gun mounts Cargo Capacity 134,000 barrels Propulsion geared turbine, single screw. 12,000hp View the Enoree (AO-69) DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.   USS Enoree (AO-69), background, and USS Tulaga (AO-62) in Tokyo Bay, November 1945. USS Enoree (AO-69) underway from Norfolk, VA. to North Africa with a deck load of PT boats, 23 March 1943. USS Enoree (AO-69) underway, date and place unknown. Note the large crane mounted on her main deck and that she is flying her World War II call letters Nan, Zebra, King, Charley. USS Enoree (AO-69) at anchor, date and place unknown. USS Enoree (T-AO-69) entering San Diego harbor, mid-1952.