| Ship
Name Description Link |
Ship
Number NavSource Link |
Construction Data |
Ship Name Data |
| USS
Arethusa ............................................ |
AO-07 ..................... |
Acquired, 12 August 1898 ............................................. |
Arethusa means "the waterer". She was a nymph and daughter
of Nereus (making her a Nereid), and
later became a fountain on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily. Read. |
| USS Sara Thompson | AO-08 | Acquired, 8 August 1818 | Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford, was a philanthropist. She is the first American to be known as a Countess |
| USS
Robert L. Barnes |
AO-14 | Built in 1917 |
Robert L. Barnes was a steel tanker built during 1917 by McDougall Duluth Ship Building Company, Duluth, Minnesota, for the Robert Barnes Steam Ship Co. |
| USS
Victoria |
AO-46 | Acquired, 28 August 1818 | USS Victoria, built in 1917 as the steel-hulled, single-screw tanker George G. Henry. She was chartered by the Navy and commissioned in 1918. In 1942 she was renamed, erroneously Victor, then Victoria, after the Victoria River of Australia. |
| USS Pasig USS Pasig |
AO-89 AO-91 |
Acquired, 22 January 1943 Launched, 3 July 1944 |
The two Pasig's were named for the Pasig River which flows
through Manila on
the Philippine Island of Luzon. They were reclassified AW,s , Water
Distilling ships. |
| USS Abatan | AO-92 | Launched, 6 August 1944 |
A Pasig class AW ship named for a river located in the southwestern part of Bohol Island in the Philippines. |
| USNS
Loan Jack |
TAO-161 | Launched, 21 October 1944 |
Lone Jack is a city in Jackson County, Missouri. On August 16, 1862 Federal troops were defeated in the Battle of Lone Jack by a much larger Confederate force. The fighting literally occurred on the main street and raged for five hours before the Federals withdrew. The Confederates were unable to hold the town following their victory because of converging Union forces from other commands. |
| USNS
Petrolite |
TAO-164 | Laid down in February1944 | The Petrolite Corporation is a
leader and a pioneer in the oil field chemical industry.From its
founding in the 1930s on into the mid-1990s, Petrolite has culled a
tradition of innovation, developing proprietary products, processes,
and equipment to serve a variety of industries. The ship was renamed
"Seattle" as a container ship in 1969 |
| USNS American Explorer She was launched as the world's first nuclear tanker-to-be, but was completed with a conventional steam plant. |
TAO-165 | Launched, 11 April 1958 |
There many American Explorers. Here is an important one: Robert Gray (1755-1806) was a American explorer who had previously been in the Navy during the Revolutionary War. Gray sailed from Boston, Massachusetts, in 1787, and traveled around South America to the northwest coast of North America and on to China, where he traded furs for tea. He began his journey with Captain John Kendrick on a sister ship. Gray continued west and returned to Boston in 1790. Gray was the first American-born explorer in an American ship to circumnavigate the globe. In 1791, he led another expedition to the northwest coast on a ship called "Columbia." In 1792, Gray sighted, named, and sailed up the Columbia River in Oregon, and also explored Gray's Harbor in what is now the state of Washington. Because of Gray's exploration, the United States now laid claim to the Oregon territory. Gray again continued westwards and circumnavigated the globe again, returning to Boston in 1793. Read. |
| USNS
Sealift Pacific USNS Sealift Arabian Sea USNS Sealift China Sea USNS Sealift Indian Sea USNS Sealift Atlantic USNS Sealift Mediterrannean USNS Sealift Caribbean USNS Sealift Artic USNS Sealift Antartic |
TAO-168 TAO-169 TAO-170 TAO-171 TAO-172 TAO-173 TAO-174 TAO-175 TAO-176 |
Launched, 15 October 1973 Launched, 15 October 1973 Launched, 1 April 1974 Launched, 1 July 1974 Launched, 1 January 1974 Launched, 1 March 1974 Launched, 1 June 1974 Launched, 1 August 1974 Launched, 15 October 1974 |
The Sealift class tankers were specifically built for, and chartered to, MSC for 20 years, 1975-95. The Navy would have preferred to purchase new ships but entered the leasing agreement because it had been unsuccessful in obtaining congressional approval of the purchase funds. |
| USNS
Henry J. Kaiser |
TAO-187 | Launched, 5 October 1985 |
Henry J, Kaiser became most famous for the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California during World War II, adopting production techniques that generated one cargo ship every 30 days. These ships became known as Liberty ships. He became world renowned when his teams built a ship in 4 days. The keel for the 10,500 ton Robert E. Peary was laid on Sunday, November 8, 1942, and the ship was launched in California from the Richmond Shipyard #2 on Thursday, November 12, four days and 15 1/2 hours later. |
| USNS
Joshua Humphreys |
TAO-188 | Launched, 22 February 1986 |
Joshua Humphreys was an influential and successful ship builder in the United States. As a youth Humphreys was apprenticed to a shipbuilder in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolutionary War he was active as a designer, and played a major part in planning Randolph, a frigate, and a 74-gun ship which was never built |
| USNS John Lenthall | TAO-189 | Launched, 9 august 1986 |
John Lenthall was Chief of Bureau of Construction. He was
the ablest Naval Architect during the Civil War, having built some of the most
effective shipa afloat. |
| USNS
Andrew J. Higgins |
TAO-190 | Launched, 17 January 1987 |
Andrew Jackson Higgins was the founder and owner of Higgins Industries, the New Orleans-based manufacturer of "Higgins boats" (LCVPs) during World War II. General Dwight Eisenhower is quoted as saying, "Andrew Higgins ... is the man who won the war for us. ... If Higgins had not designed and built those LCVPs, we never could have landed over an open beach. The whole strategy of the war would have been different." |
| USNS
Benjamin Isherwood |
TAO-191 | Launched, 15 December 1988 |
Benjamin Franklin Isherwood was an engineering officer in the United States Navy during the early days of steam-powered warships. He served as a ship's engineer during the Mexican-American War, and after the war did experimental work with steam propulsion. Rising to the rank of rear admiral, as Engineer-in-Chief of the Navy during the Civil War, he helped to found the Navy's Bureau of Steam Engineering. |
| USNS Henry
Eckford Construction Incomplete |
TAO-192 | Launched, 29 January 1944 Then Canceled |
Henry Eckford was a Scottish-born shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer, and entrepreneur who worked for the United States Navy and the navy of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century. Eckford earned a national reputation in the United States during the War of 1812. |
| USNS
Walter S. Diehl |
TAO-193 | Launched, 2 October 1987 |
Captain Walter S. Diehl was a pioneer of aerodynamics and aircraft design. From 1918 until his retirement in 1951, he directed the Navy's work in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics. Walter Diehl is credited with initiating action that led to establishment of the David W. Taylor Model Basin at Carderock, Maryland, the Aircraft Research Station at Chincoteague, Virginia, and the Navy's test flight unit at the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, D. C., which later developed into the U.S. Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent, Maryland. |
| USNS
John Ericsson |
TAO-194 | Launched, 21 april 1990 |
John Ericsson, one of the 19th Century's most creative
engineers
and inventors, was born in Sweden. In
1826 he pursued a variety of engineering
projects, among them the use of screw propellers on ships, the
development of extraordinarily large guns and the creation of engines
driven by hot air instead of steam. Ericsson's work attracted the
attention Robert
F. Stockton, an influential and progressive U.S. Navy officer,
who encouraged him to relocate to the United States. During the
early 1840s, the two designed a screw-propelled warship, which
was commissioned in 1843 as USS Princeton,
armed with heavy guns of their devising. |
| USNS
Leroy Grumman |
TAO-195 | Launched, 3 December 1988 |
Leroy Grumman designed the first practical floats with a retractable landing gear for the Navy, and this launched Grumman into the aviation market. The first Grumman aircraft was also for the Navy, the Grumman FF-1, a biplane with retractable landing gear. This was followed by a number of other successful designs. During World War II, Grumman became famous for its Navy fighter aircraft, F4F Wildcat and F6F Hellcat, and for its torpedo bomber TBF Avenger. Grumman's first jet plane, the F9F Panther, became operational in 1949, but the company's big postwar successes came in the 1960s with the A-6 Intruder and in the 1970s with the F-14 Tomcat. |
| USS Supply USS Rainier USS Artic USS Bridge TAOE-5 and 9 were not built. |
TAOE-6 TAOE-7 TAOE-8 TAOE-10 |
Launched, 6 October 1990 Launched, 28 Septembe 1991 Launched, 30 October 1993 Launched, 24 August 1996 |
AOE-6 was the lead ship of Supply-class of fast combat support ships. They are the Navy's largest combat logistics ship, designed as an oiler, ammunition and supply ship. All fast combat support ships currently in service are operated by Military Sealift Command (MSC). The AOE has the speed and armament to keep up with carrier battle groups. It rapidly replenishes Navy task forces and can carry more than 177,000 barrels of oil (28,000 m³), 2,150 tons of ammunition, 500 tons of dry stores and 250 tons of refrigerated stores. It receives petroleum products, ammunition and stores from shuttle ships and redistributes these items simultaneously to carrier battle group ships. This reduces the vulnerability of serviced ships by reducing alongside time. |
| USNS
Gus W. Darnell USNS Paul Buck USNS Samuel L. Cobb USNS Richard G. Mattheisen USNS Lawrence H. Gianella |
AOT-1121 AOT-1122 AOT-1123 AOT-1124 AOT-1125 |
Delivered in 1985 Delivered in 1985 Delivered in 1985 Delivered in 1986 Delivered in 1986 |
The five Champion-class tankers, known as T5s, have double hulls and are ice-strengthened for protection against damage in colder climates. In addition, two of the tankers are equipped with modular fuel delivery systems, which allow them to refuel combatant ships at sea. Gianella and Matthiesen are able to rig underway replenishment gear. |
| MT
New York Sun MT Montauk ST Overseas Alice ST Overseas Valdez ST Overseas Vivian |
AOT-1201 AOT-1202 AOT-1203 AOT-1204 AOT-1205 |
Built in 1981 Built in 1999 Delivered in 1968 Delivered in 1968 Delivered in 1968 |
Tankers under long-term contract to move DOD petroleum. |
| ST Mount Vernon ST American Osprey ST Chesapeake ST Petersburg |
AOT-3009 AOT-5075 AOT-5084 AOT-9101 |
Delivered Leased in 1998 Delivered in 1964 Delivered in 1963 |
