&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:USS_Wabash_(AOG-4)_on_23_October_1944_(19-N-75175).jpg) USS Wabash
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Wabash |
| Namesake | Wabash River |
| Builder | Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down | 30 June 1942 |
| Launched | 28 October 1942 |
| Commissioned | 10 May 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 29 July 1946 |
| Stricken | 23 April 1947 |
| Fate | Transferred to the US Army Transportation Corps |
| Recommissioned | 1 June 1950, as T-AOG-4 |
| Decommissioned | 10 September 1957 |
| Stricken | 8 May 1958 |
| Fate | Disposed of by scrapping at Brownsville, Texas on 27 January 2006 |
| 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 | 140 |
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| Service record | |
| Operations: | World War II, Korean War |
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USS Wabash (AOG-4) was a Patapsco-class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations.
Wabash was laid down on 30 June 1942 at Seattle, Washington, by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 28 October 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Louis A. Puckett; and was commissioned at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, on 10 May 1943.