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Escambia
T2-SE-A2
Escambia Class Fleet Oiler:
MARINSHIP LAUNCHES ITS FIRST TANKER
A new phase in the already immense program of shipbuilding in the San Francisco Bay area was inaugurated on April 25 with
launching at the Marinship yards at Sausalito, California, of S. S. Escambia. This tanker was the first of a scheduled 22 to be
built by the yard this year for the Maritime Commission.
( Photo courtesy Marinship Corp. )
USS Escambia (AO-80) after her launch.
( Photo courtesy Marinship Corp. )
USS Escambia (AO-80) underway, date and place unknown.
Broadside view of Escambia (AO-80) off San Francisco, 12 November 1943.
USS Escambia (AO-80) underway, date and place unknown.
USS Escambia (AO-80) underway, date and place unknown.
USS Escambia (AO-80) underway, date and place unknown.
USNS Escambia (T-AO-80) underway in the Long Beach CA. area, date unknown.
( Photo thanks to David Buell )
USNS Escambia (T-AO-80) docked in Los Angeles Harbor, 1960.(Photo Waddingham, Francis / Los Angeles Maritime Museum)
USS Escambia (AO-80) underway, date and place unknown.
ESCAMBIA, T2-SE-A2
History :
Built by Marinship Co., Sausalito, California.
Yardnumber 13. UMSC No. 1259. Off. nr. AO-80.
Keel laid 07-12-1942. Launched 25-04-1943. Completed 28-10-1943. Gr. 10448 t., Net. 6423 t., Dw. 16613 t. L.o.a. 159,57 m., Br. 20,78 m., Dr. 8,99 m. Engine: 2 steam turbines, manufactured by General Electric Company, Lynn, Massachussetts. 10000 B.h.p., 7356 kW. Speed 15 knots. 26 tanks.
History:
ESCAMBIA-1943 Completed for U.S. War Shipping Administration, San Francisco, USA.
ESCAMBIA-1943 Assigned to the US Navy, 30 June.
AO-80 ESCAMBIA-1943 Commissioned USS Escambia (AO-80), 28 October.
AO-80 ESCAMBIA-1946 Decommissioned, 20 February. Struck from the Naval Register, 12 March. Transferred to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, 30 June.
AO-80 ESCAMBIA-1948 Reacquired by the Navy, 26 January. Operated under contract to Naval Transportation Service.
T-AO-80 ESCAMBIA-1950 Placed in service by the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS Escambia (T-AO-80), 18 July.
T-AO-80 ESCAMBIA-1957 Placed out of service. Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, WA., 3 October.
T-AO-80 ESCAMBIA-1957 Struck from the Naval Register in 1957.
ESCAMBIA-1966 Acquired by the US Army, 26 April 1966 and converted to a Mobile Army Emergency Power Plant assigned to Vietnam service. At Qui Nhon, South Vietnam.
Additional Reports :
Reported Escambia converted into Mobile Army Emergency Power Plant in 1966 at Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Company, Mobile, Alabama.
Reported Escambia sold to shipbreakers in Taiwan. Arrived Kaohsiung Jul. 1971 to be broken up. [ By Chin Tai Steel Enterprise Co. Ltd. ]
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USS Escambia, Built at Marinship, fleet oiler, hull #13, keel laid 12/7/42, launched April 25, 1943, 1st tanker. Sponsor: Mrs. Joseph Cooper, wife of yard employee. (1992.54.07.B). Designation is actually SS; first tanker launched by Marinship. In USMC Reserve Fleet in October, 1960. Scrapped 7.71 Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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MARAD Status Card.
