Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages | home
Clearwater / Mettawee
T1-M-A1
Mettawee Class Gasoline Tanker:
USS Mettawee (AOG-17) underway, date and place unknown.( US Navy photo )
USS Mettawee (AOG-17) probably photographed in September 1943 just after completion of conversion. The secondary antiaircraft
battery consisted of four 20mm guns amidships and two on the bridge. This arrangement was also initially fitted to a few of the
ships of the Sakatonchee (AOG-19) class, before one or two 40mm singles were added.
( Photo US National Archives )
USS Mettawee (AOG-17) probably photographed in September 1943 just after completion of conversion. The secondary antiaircraft
battery consisted of four 20mm guns amidships and two on the bridge. This arrangement was also initially fitted to a few of the
ships of the Sakatonchee (AOG-19) class, before one or two 40mm singles were added.
( Photo US National Archives )
Clearwater / Mettawee, T1-M-A1
Built by East Coast Shipyards Inc., Bayonne, New Jersey. Yardnumber 1. USMC Nr. 899.
Keel laid 13-08-1942. Launched 28-11-1942. Completed 05-04-1943.
Official nr. AOG-17. Gr. 1220 t., Net. 856 t., Dw. 1475 t.
L.o.a. 68,68 m., Br. 11,39 m., Dr. 4,06 m. Lloyds Register (IMO) or ID nr. 1169792.
Engine: 5 cyl 2SA 405 x 520 oil engine, manufactured by Fairbanks, Morse & Company, Beloit, Wisconsin. 790 B.h.p., 589 kW. Speed 10 knots. 12 Tanks. Derrick: 1 x 3 t. Call sign: NCIU. Complement 62
Armament one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 40mm guns, three single 20mm gun mounts.
History:
Laid down, as CLEARWATER (YOG-47), a Maritime Commission type (T1-M-A1) tanker hull, 13 August 1942, under a Maritime Commission contract, at East Coast Shipyard Inc., Bayonne, N.J.
Launched as CLEARWATER (YOG-47).
Renamed and reclassified, METTAWEE (AOG-17), 25 March 1943.
Acquired by the Navy, 5 April 1943
Commissioned USS METTAWEE (AOG-17), 26 August 1943
Decommissioned, 29 March 1946, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 10 September 1946, renamed CLEARWATER.
Final Disposition, for Unites States of America ( Dept. of Commerce ), 1964.
CASUALTY REPORTS.
Reported CLEARWATER sold to shipbreakers in USA. Arrived National Metals & Steel Corporation, Terminal Islands 22 january, 1964 to be broken up.
|
Vessel Status Cards
