USS Cimarron (AO-177)

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USS Cimarron before the jumboization, 1983
History
United States
Name	USS Cimarron
Namesake	Cimarron River
Awarded	9 August 1976
Builder	Avondale Shipyards
Laid down	18 May 1978
Launched	28 April 1979
Acquired	15 December 1980
Commissioned	10 January 1981
Decommissioned	15 December 1998
Stricken	3 May 1999
Identification	IMO number: 7638430
Motto	"First in Service"
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Displacement	36,977 tons full load
Length	708 ft (216 m)
Beam	88 ft (27 m)
Draft	32 ft (9.8 m)
Propulsion	Steam Turbine
Speed	21.8 kn (40.4 km/h)
Complement	17 officers, 205 enlisted
Armament	4 × .50-caliber Machine Guns

USS Cimarron (AO-177) was the lead ship of the Cimarron-class of fleet oilers of the United States Navy. Cimarron was built at the Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA) starting in 1978 and was commissioned in 1981 for service in the Pacific Fleet. Commissioned 10 January 1981, in Oakland, California. The oiler was home ported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The total cost for the ship was $136.7 million.^{[citation needed]}