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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Susquehanna |
| Namesake | Susquehanna River in New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland |
| Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down | 9 September 1942 |
| Launched | 23 November 1942 |
| Commissioned | 7 June 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 15 August 1946 Transferred to the US Army Transportation Corps |
| Stricken | 23 April 1947 |
| Reinstated | 1 July 1950 |
| In service | 1 July 1950, as T-AOG-5 |
| Out of service | 26 March 1959 |
| Stricken | 26 March 1959 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1973 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Patapsco-class gasoline tanker |
| Displacement | 4,335 long tons (4,405 t) full load |
| Length | 310 ft 9 in (94.72 m) |
| Beam | 48 ft 6 in (14.78 m) |
| Draft | 15 ft 8 in (4.78 m) |
| Propulsion | 4 × General Electric diesel-electric engines, twin shafts, 3,300 hp (2,461 kW) |
| Speed | 14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
| Complement | 134 officers and men |
| Armament | • 4 × 3"/50 caliber guns |
| Service record | |
| Operations: | World War II, Korean War |
USS Susquehanna (AOG-5) was a Patapsco-class gasoline tanker in service with United States Navy from 1943 to 1946 and with the Military Sea Transportation Service from 1950 to 1959. She was scrapped in 1973.