U.S.S. Kanawha
AO-1
1938
(Saratoga Model Shipyard SMY-08)
- Class: Kanawha - 3 oilers of 1914-15
- Displacement: 4,990 tons light; 14,500 tons full load
- Dimensions: 458 x 56 x 26 ft.
- Machinery: 1-shaft reciprocating V.T.E., S.H.P. 5,200 = 14 knots
- Armament: 4-4"/50 guns
- Complement: 136
- Builder: Mare Island Navy Yard
- Launched: 11 Jul 1914
- Commissioned: 6 Jun 1915
- Notes: Assigned to Atlantic Fleet; WW1 convoys to Europe.
To Pacific 1919; decommissioned 1929-34. Returned to duty Jun 1934,
moving oil between West Coast and Hawaii and Midway. Moved to SW Pacific
May 1942. Bombed and sunk by Japanese planes at Tulagi, 7 Apr 1943.
World's first for the purpose built naval oiler.
Sisterships Maumee and Cuyama.
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