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Taluga
T3-S2-A3
Cimmeron Class Fleet Oiler:
Laid down, 23 December 1943, as a Maritime Commission type (T3-S2-A3) tanker hull, under Maritime Commission
contract (MC hull 728), at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Sparrows Point, MD.
Launched, 10 July 1944
Commissioned USS Taluga (AO-62), 25 August 1944
Decommissioned, 4 May 1972, at Long Beach, CA.
Turned over to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) and placed in service as USNS Taluga (T-AO-62)
Placed out of service (date unknown)
Struck from the Naval Register, 21 February 1992
Transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun
Bay, Benecia, CA.
Title transfer to MARAD, 1 May 1999
Final Disposition, fate unknown.
( See photos below )
Specifications:
Displacement 7,236 t.(lt) 25,440 t.(fl)
Length 553'
Beam 75'
Draft 32'
Speed 18 kts.
Complement 314
Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts,
four twin 40mm gun mounts, four twin 20mm gun mounts
Cargo Capacity 146,000 barrels
Propulsion geared turbines, twin screws, 30,400hp.
View the Taluga (AO-62)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site.
USS Taluga (AO-62), date and place unknown.
USS Taluga (AO-62) refueling Iwo Jima (LPH-2).
USS Taluga (AO-62) refueling Oriskany (CVA-34) and Charles P. Cecil (DD-835).
Overhead view of USS Taluga (AO-62) refueling an unidentified Essex class aircraft
carrier and destroyer.
USS Taluga (AO-62), date and place unknown.
USS Taluga (AO-62), date and place unknown.
USS Taluga (AO-62) refueling an unidentified Essex class aircraft carrier and destroyer.
USS Taluga (T-AO-62) underway at San Diego, CA. with the assistance of tugs.
USS Taluga (AO-62), date and place unknown.
USS Taluga (AO-62) drops away after refueling USS Evans (DE-1023) during a WESTPAC
deployment in April 1967. Photo taken from USS Evans.
( Photo by Darryl Baker )
Plaquette USS Taluga (AO-62).
USS Taluga (T-AO-62), laid up.
USS Taluga (T-AO-62), laid up.
Custody CARDS by PMARS is MARAD's official repository of NDRF ships of TalugaCustody CARDS
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