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Conemaugh
Mettawee Class Gasoline Tanker:
Laid down, date unknown, as a Maritime Commission type (T1-M-A2) tanker hull, under Maritime
Commission contract (MC 2656), at East Coast Shipyards Inc., Bayonne, N.J.
Launched, 17 February 1945
Acquired by the Navy, 9 March 1945
Commissioned USS Conemaugh (AOG-62), 21 March 1945, LT. W. A. Jump, Jr., USNR, in command
Decommissioned, 26 March 1946
Struck from the Naval Register, 17 April 1946
Transferred to the War Shipping Administration Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 19 September 1951, to National Metal & Steel Corp. (PD-X-505),
withdrawn and delivered, 3 October 1951 to agent Zidell Metal and Steel Corp.
( No photo available )
Specifications:
Displacement 846 t. (lt) 2,255 t.(fl)
Length 220' 6"
Beam 37'
Draft 13'
Speed 10 kts.
Complement Officers 8 Enlisted 50
Armament one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount six single 20mm AA gun mounts
Largest Boom Capacity 4 t.
Cargo Capacity 1,360 dwt Oil 12,100 bbls
Fuel Capacity Diesel 200 bbls
Propulsion one direct drive Fairbanks-Morse 37E16 Diesel engines
three Diesel-drive 40Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators single propeller, 720shp
The second Conemaugh was launched 17 February 1945 by East Coast Ship Yard, Inc., Bayonne, N.J., sponsored by Mrs. F. J. Read;
acquired by the Navy 9 March 1945; converted at Marine Basin Shipyard, Brooklyn, N.Y.;
and commissioned 21 March 1945, Lieutenant W. A. Jump, Jr., USNR, in command.
Conemaugh cleared Norfolk 7 May 1945 to load fuel at Aruba and sailed on to arrive at San Diego 7 June.
She put out from San Diego 17 June for San Francisco, Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, and Ulithi.
Here she had local fueling duties as well as making voyages to Peleliu from 2 August to 30 October.
She then became station diesel tanker at Guam, continuing her fuel runs to Peleliu until 25 January 1946, when she returned to San Francisco.
Conemaugh was decommissioned 26 March 1946, and returned to the War Shipping Administration.