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Ontonagon
T1-M-A2
Mattawee Class Gasoline Tanker:
USNS Ontonagon (T-AOG-36) underway, date and place unknown.
USNS Ontonagon (T-AOG-36), underway near the Norfolk Navy Yard, 5 November 1944.( Photo thanks to Stan Svec )
USNS Ontonagon (T-AOG-36) underway, date and place unknown.ONTONAGON, T1-M-A2
Built by East Coast Shipyards Inc., Bayonne, New Jersey. Yardnumber 18. USMC Nr. 1799.
Keel laid 10-05-1944. Launched 30-06-1944. Completed 13-09-1944.
Gr. 1220 t., Net. 856 t., Dw. 1475 t.
L.o.a. 68,68 m., Br. 11,39 m., Dr. 4,06 m. Lloyds Register (IMO) or ID nr. 6119793.
Engine: 5 cyl 2SA 405 x 520 oil engine, manufactured by Fairbanks, Morse & Company, Beloit, Wisconsin. 790 B.h.p., 589 kW.
Speed 10 knots. 12 Tanks. Derrick: 1 x 3 t. Call sign: NHVU.
History:
1943 - Laid down, as ONTONAGON, 10 May 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (T1-M-A2) tanker hull, under Maritime Commission (MC hull 1799) contract at East Coast Shipyards Inc., Bayonne, N.J.
1944 - ONTONAGON Acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission, 13 September 1944.
1944 - ONTONAGON (AOG-36) Commissioned, 21 September 1944.
1946 - ONTONAGON (AOG-36) Decommisioned, 27 February 1946, at Mangle, P.I.
1946 - ONTONAGON (AOG-36) Struck from the Naval Register, 12 March 1946.
1946 - ONTONAGON (AOG-36) Custody transferred, 27 April 1946, to the US Army Transportation Service (USATS)
1946 - ONTONAGON (Y-130) Commissioned, 27 April 1946, USAT Ontonagon (Y-130).
1950 - ONTONAGON (Y-130) Decommissioned by USATS and returned to Naval custody, 1 July 1950.
1950 - ONTONAGON (Y-130) Assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS)
1952 - ONTONAGON (T-AOG-36) Placed in service as USNS Ontonagon (T-AOG-36) in 1952
1954 - ONTONAGON (T-AOG-36) Placed out of service in June 1954.
1954 - ONTONAGON (T-AOG-36) Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, WA., 14 December 1954.
1956 - ONTONAGON (T-AOG-36) Placed in service by MSTS, 26 April 1956.
1956 - ONTONAGON (T-AOG-36) Placed out of service, 25 September 1956, and Transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
1957 - ONTONAGON (T-AOG-36) Struck from the Naval Register, 13 November 1957.
1964 - ONTONAGON Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 7 January 1964, to National Metals & Steel Corp. for $18,500.00, (PD-X-63 dated 11 December 1963). Withdrawn from the reserve fleet, 22 January 1964
CASUALTY REPORTS.
Reported Ontonagon laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet 13 nov 1957.
Reported Ontonagon sold to shipbreakers in USA. Arrived Terminal Island sep 1965 to be broken up.
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