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Ponchatoula
T1-M-A2
Mettawee Class Gasoline Tanker:
USS Ponchatoula (AOG-38) at anchor, date and location unknown.
( US Navy photo )
Ex-USS Ponchatoula (AOG-38) under way while in Sun Oil Company service as MT Mystic Sun, circa 1947-1969.( Photo thanks to David Wright )
"Mystic Sun", ex. "Ponchatoula".
( Photo Collection Braun Brothers )
( Photo Copyright The Steamship Historical Society of America )
"Mystic Sun", ex. "Ponchatoula".
( Photo Collection Braun Brothers )
( Photo Copyright The Steamship Historical Society of America )
"Mystic Sun", ex. "Ponchatoula".
( Photo Collection Braun Brothers )
( Photo Copyright The Steamship Historical Society of America )
PONCHATOULA, T1-M-A2
Built by East Coast Shipyards Inc., Bayonne, New Jersey. Yardnumber 20. USMC Nr. 1801.
Keel laid 7-06-1944. Launched 30-07-1944. Completed 30-09-1944.
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. 5276282.
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: NHWB.
History:
1943 - Laid down, as PONCHATOULA, 7 June 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (T1-M-A2) tanker hull, under Maritime Commission (MC hull 1801) contract at East Coast Shipyards Inc., Bayonne, N.J.
1944 - PONCHATOULA Delivered to the US Navy, 30 September 1944.
1944 - PONCHATOULA (AOG-38) Commissioned, 6 October 1944.
1946 - PONCHATOULA (AOG-38) Decommisioned, 24 April 1946.
1946 - PONCHATOULA (AOG-38) Struck from the Naval Register, 31 May 1946.
1946 - PONCHATOULA Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 9 December 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA..
1948 - PONCHATOULA Sold to Sun Oil Co., Philadelphia PA., 6 May 1948, renamed MT Mystic Sun.
1969 - MYSTIC SUN Sold to Frank Atmanchuk, 15 May 1969, converted to a barge.
1969 - MYSTIC SUN Sold to Frank's Marine Service, New York, N.Y. in June 1969, name retained.
1981 - MYSTIC SUN Final Disposition, 1981, sold for scrapping.
CASUALTY REPORTS.
Reported Mystic Sun sold to shipbreakers in USA. Arrived breakers yard 1981 to be broken up.
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