&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Alameda_(AO-10).jpg) Alameda at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, on 7 March 1921
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Alameda (Fuel Ship No. 10) |
| Namesake | Alameda, California |
| Builder | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia |
| Yard number | 497[1] |
| Laid down | 16 December 1918[2] |
| Launched | 15 July 1919[2] |
| Sponsored by | Mrs. Richard G. Widdows |
| Completed | October 1919[1] |
| Acquired | 17 October 1919[2] |
| Commissioned | 17 October 1919[2] |
| Reclassified | AO-10, summer 1920 |
| Decommissioned | 29 March 1922[2] |
| Stricken | 8 August 1922[2] |
| Fate | Sold 9 August 1922[2] |
| Notes | sister ship of USS Kaweah (AO-15), Laramie (AO-16), and Mattole (AO-17) |
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| Port of registry |  New York[3][6] |
| Refit | rebuilt in 1943 after torpedo attack by U-158 |
| Fate | transferred to U.S. Navy in July 1944[5] |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Silver Cloud |
| Acquired | 12 July 1944[7] |
| Commissioned | 12 July 1944[7] |
| Decommissioned | 29 March 1946[7] |
| Stricken | 17 April 1946[7] |
| Fate | Transferred to War Shipping Administration 29 March 1946; Sold for scrapping, 21 January 1947[7] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Design 1128 tanker |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 446 ft (136 m) |
| Beam | 58 ft (18 m) (waterline) |
| Draft | 25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) (mean) |
| Depth | 33 ft 3 in (10.13 m)[3] |
| Installed power | 2,800 shp (2,100 kW) |
| Propulsion | 1 triple-expansion steam engine, one shaft[1] |
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h) |
| Capacity | 1,000 tons |
| Complement | 252 |
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USS Alameda (Fuel Ship No. 10/AO-10), was a United States Navy tanker in commission from 1919 to 1922. She was built as the civilian tanker SS Alameda, but transferred to the U.S. Navy after completion in 1919. She was sold for commercial service and operated under the names SS Olean and SS Sweep before she was transferred to the Navy again in World War II as USS Silver Cloud (IX-143).
SS Alameda, one of four Design 1128 civilian tankers, was built by William Cramp & Sons for the United States Shipping Board, but was acquired by the U.S. Navy after her completion. After suffering a major fire in 1921, she was decommissioned in 1922 and sold. Repaired, she entered commercial service as SS Olean in 1925.
Around the time the United States entry into World War II in December 1941, Olean was equipped with defensive armament and a complement of Naval Armed Guardsmen. In March 1942, the tanker was sailing unescorted off the North Carolina coast, when she was torpedoed twice by U-158 and abandoned with the loss of six men. The ship, however, remained afloat and was towed to Hampton Roads, Virginia. Although originally thought too damaged to repair, she nevertheless reentered service under the control of the War Shipping Administration in April 1943 as SS Sweep.
In October 1943, the U.S. Navy selected Sweep for service as a floating storage tanker in the Pacific. The ship was transferred to Navy control in July at Eniwetok, and commissioned as USS Silver Cloud (IX-143). She was transferred to Manus in August, and to Leyte in January 1945. At the end of 1945, she sailed to Mobile, Alabama, to await disposal. Transferred to the War Shipping Administration in March 1946, she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register in April, sold for scrapping in January 1947.
- ^ a b c d "Alameda (2218904)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g Naval History & Heritage Command. "Alameda". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ a b c Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Register of Ships (1930–31 ed.). London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Scan of page "Old–Olg" (pdf) hosted at Plimsoll Ship Data. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Register of Ships (1932–33 ed.). London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Scan of page "Old–Olg" (pdf) hosted at Plimsoll Ship Data. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ a b Naval Historical Center. "USS Alameda (AO-10), 1919–1922; Later USS Silver Cloud (IX-143), 1944–1946". Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy ships. Navy Department, Naval Historical Center. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ a b Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Register of Ships (1943–44 ed.). London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Scan of page "S" (pdf) hosted at Plimsoll Ship Data. Retrieved 18 July 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Navy History & Heritage Command. "Silver Cloud". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 18 July 2009.