U.S.S. Mispillion
T-AO-105
1976
(Spider Navy SN-3-17)
- Class: Mispillion -- 5 fleet oilers of 1944
- Displacement: 35,090 tons full load
- Dimensions: 646' (oa) x 75' x 35'6"
- Machinery: 2 steam turbines; 13,500 shp; 2 shafts = 16 knots
- Guns: removed
- Complement: 111 civilian + 21 Navy
- Builder: Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Chester, PA
- Laid down:
- Launched: 16 Aug 1945
- Commissioned: 29 Dec 1945
- Decommissioned: 8 Feb 1990
- Notes: Class built to Maritime Administration T3-S2-A3 design during WWII as Navy fleet oilers. Jumboized in mid-1960s by the addition of a 93' midsection, with helicopter vertrep area added forward. Carried up to 150,000 barrels of petroleum products. Original armament removed when transferred to MSC operation in 1973-75, as shown here. Transferred to NDRF when taken out of service. Scrapped 1995.
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