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Tombigbee
T1-MT-M1
Patapsco Class Gasoline Tanker:
Laid down, 23 October 1942, at Cargill Inc., Savage, MN.
Launched, 18 November 1943
Commissioned USS Tombigbee (AOG-11), 13 July 1944
Decommissioned, 12 December 1949
Laid up in the Reserve Fleet Recommissioned, 28 July 1950
Decommissioned, 7 July 1972
Struck from the Naval Register, 15 April 1978
Transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal
Sold through the Security Assistance Program to Greece, 1 July 1978, renamed HS Ariadni (A-414)
Final Disposition, to be withdrawn from Greek naval service in 2003, fate unknown
( See photos below )
Specifications:
Displacement 1,850 t.(lt) 4,130 t.(fl)
Length 310' 9"
Beam 48' 6"
Draft 15' 8"
Speed 15.5 kts.
Complement 131
Armament four 3"/50 dual purpose guns, twelve 20mm guns
Cargo Capacity 2,210 DWT
Propulsion four GE diesel electric engines, twin shafts, 3,300hp

View the Tombigbee (AOG-11)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site

USS Tombigbee (AOG-11) underway, date and place unknown.
( Photo Courtesy Larry Sullivan )
USS Tombigbee (AOG-11) underway, date and place unknown.
( Photo Courtesy Larry Sullivan )
 
USS Tombigbee (AOG-11) offloading a cargo of JP-4 in McMurdo Sound Antarctica, in support of
Operation Deep Freeze in January 1962.
( Photo thanks to Robert H. McSweeny )
 USS Tombigbee (AOG-11) underway, in 1966.
(US Navy photo )
USS Tombigbee (AOG-11) departing Pearl Harbor, HI, October 1968.
( Photo © Richard Leonhardt )
 
Bow view of USS Tombigbee (AOG-11), 8 June 1967, while operating off the coast of Oahu, HI.
( Photo thanks to Robert M. Cieri )
 
U.S. Navy Oiler, Gasoline USS Tombigbee (AOG-11) operating off the
coast of Oahu, Hawaii, July 20, 1964.
 
U.S. Navy Oiler, Gasoline USS Tombigbee (AOG-11) operating off the coast of
Oahu, Hawaii, June 8, 1957
ex-USS Tombigbee (AOG-11) in Hellenic naval service as HS Ariadni (A-414)
of the Greek Navy, August 2001.
( Photo thanks to Paul Gryniewicz )
ex-USS Tombigbee (AOG-11) in Hellenic naval service as HS Ariadni (A-414) in an
Unrep with ex-USS Semmes (DDG-18) HS Kimon of the Greek Navy, August 2001.
( Photo thanks to Paul Gryniewicz )