Namakogon

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Namakogon

T1-MT-M1

Patapsco Class Gasoline Tanker:

Laid down, 1 August 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (T1-MT-M1) tanker hull, under a Maritime

Commission contract at Cargill Inc., Savage, MN.

Launched, 4 November 1944

Commissioned USS Namakogon (AOG-53), 15 June 1945

Decommissioned, 20 September 1957, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA.

Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet

Custody transferred to Commandant, 12th Naval District, 27 June 1962, for activation and transferred,

under the Military Aid Program, to New Zealand, 5 October 1962

Commissioned HMNZS Endeavour (A-184), an Antarctic supply ship

Decommissioned and returned to US custody in 1971 Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet

Struck from the Naval Register, 15 April 1976

Transferred under the Security Assistance Program to Taiwan, 1 May 1976, renamed Lung Chuan (AOG-507)

Lung Chuan (AOG-507) was decommissioned, 1 April 2005, at Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Final Disposition, fate unknown.

( See photos below )

Specifications:

Displacement 1,841 t.(lt) 4,335 t.(fl)

Length 310' 9"

Beam 48' 6"

Draft 15' 8"

Speed 14 kts.

Complement 124

Armament four 3"/50 dual purpose guns, twelve 20mm guns, reduced to three 3:/50s and no 20mm

Cargo Capacity 2,210 DWT

Propulsion four 980 hp GE diesel engines, electric drive, twin shafts, 3,300shp.

View the Namakogon (AOG-53) DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site.

View the HMNZS Endeavour (A-184) HISTORY entry located at NavSource.

USS Namakogon (AOG-53) being towed through Mississippii River Lock No. 15

by the towboat James W. Good of Inland Waterways, 25 May 1945.

( Photo thanks to John Fitzgerald, Archivist, USACE, Rock Island District )

USS Namakogon (AOG-53) being towed through Mississippii River Lock No. 15

by the towboat James W. Good of Inland Waterways, 25 May 1945.

( Photo thanks to John Fitzgerald, Archivist, USACE, Rock Island District )