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In the News (Fri 1 Jan 10)

  
  USS Neosho (AO-23) Home Page
Bill, a Fireman Third Class, worked in the ship's engine room and was very fond of the ship and its crew, a fact that was plainly obvious to me more than 60 years later when his eyes began to mist over as he described his experiences on the Neosho.
The Neosho was the only ship berthed on "Battleship Row" that terrible morning which was not damaged, and Bill, at his battle station with the 3-inch gun on the bow, witnessed the entire attack.
Of the 293 men onboard the ship before the attack, 20 men were confirmed dead and 158 men were missing, many of whom were on the rafts that had drifted away from the ship.
www.delsjourney.com /uss_neosho/neosho_home.htm   (3092 words)

  
  Oiler (ship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the United States Navy, oilers carry the hull classification symbols AO.
On that return, he was assigned as the Executive Officer and Chief Engineer on the Navy’s first diesel-powered surface ship, the oiler USS Maumee (AO-2), then under completion at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Maumee was a good-sized ship for her time, 14,500 tons, and her engines were very large, developing 2,500 horsepower each.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oiler_(ship)   (571 words)

  
 Project Liberty Ship
The oiler had the burden of being sure there was enough oil on the bearings to keep them cool, but for economic reasons he had to limit his use of oil or the chief engineer would become contentious.
Each oiler was supplied with a fixed amount of oil for his watch, but he would keep a private supply of oil to use to flood a bearing that might have gotten warm; acquired by economizing a little each watch and saving the overage.
The oilers and firemen were almost invariably helpful in teaching the wipers their respective duties in the assumption that the wiper was interested in moving up to fireman or oiler.
www.liberty-ship.com /html/contributed/hafford(04).html   (5886 words)

  
 UNREP
As we approach the oiler is identified on the radar and her course and speed are calculated.
As we close in the oiler signals the Romeo Corpen (replenishment course) and the speed she intends to conduct the operation at.
Essentially the ship goes back to routine with the exception of the deck force who take care of cleaning up and storing gear at the three stations and the supply department is busy moving the supplies to their final destination.
home.cfl.rr.com /bobstamps/ss/unrep.html   (2520 words)

  
 Project Liberty Ship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The oiler was primarily responsible for this but as he had to make the rounds, the engineer had to spell him.
The Liberty Ship boilers were designed so the water was in tubes located in the furnace, and the heated water discharged steam to a cylindrical tank that acted to separate water and steam.
The nets were probably installed on ships carrying special cargo and possibly special circumstances but they slowed a ship to a point that their value was marginal at best and they never came into general use.
www.liberty-ship.com /html/contributed/hafford(06).html   (5148 words)

  
 USS Elokomin (AO 55)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Designed by the U.S. Maritime Commission, the ship was a large twin screw tanker, powered by two steam turbines of 6750 horse-power each, and was of the continuous single deck type, the profile presenting the usual tanker arrangement of poop, bridge and forecastle with machinery and boilers located abaft the cargo tanks.
The ship’s first cruise was a short voyage from Baltimore to Norfolk, where she was fitted out and the finishing touches added.
The ship never spent more than two days in any of the other ports....several times an arrival would be made at Tangiers or Gibraltar in the morning, give one liberty party until 2 p.m., then the other until 7 p.m.
www.members.tripod.com /elokomin/history.htm   (14986 words)

  
 Aucilla
The oiler remained at Sparrows Point until 28 December at which time she got underway for Portsmouth, Va. She arrived at the Norfolk Navy Yard on the 29th and began training the crew at battle stations and loading ammunition.
The oiler performed extensive occupation duty at various locations in the Far East between the end of the war and the summer of 1947.
When the ship returned to the United States early in December, she entered the Bethlehem Shipyard at Hoboken, N.J., for a three-month modification and repair period.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a14/aucilla.htm   (2729 words)

  
 Tappahannock
The oiler remained, as station tanker, at the one-time German colonial showplace city until 26 April 1946, when she got underway for the Near East to load a cargo of oil.
The oiler returned to the Mediterranean soon thereafter, transited that body of water and the Suez Canal, and arrived at the Persian Gulf port of Bahrain on 5 April.
The oiler, by now one of the oldest active-duty ships on the Navy list, was clearly aging; and replacements for many of her worn-out parts were hard to find or unavailable.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t2/tappahannock.htm   (3043 words)

  
 Reducing the Risk of Unreps
In that mishap, the seas and winds were such that the helmsman aboard the AOE was continually using left rudder to keep his ship on the designated replenishment course.
With the "oiler" underway, Vincennes made her approach alongside the trailing line of barrels and maintained unrep speeds and distances.
Members of the ship-training team (STT) then put the rudder over, simulating a casualty that sent the ship veering toward the "oiler." When the ship hit any of the barrels, the conning officer ordered, "All back full," and steered away from the barrels to avoid fouling the line.
www.safetycenter.navy.mil /media/fathom/issues/JulSep00/unreps.htm   (1018 words)

  
 USS Winooski II
The ships arrived in Lingayen Gulf on the morning of 11 January, but Winooski departed the gulf again that evening to join TG 77.4, the Escort Carrier Group, for several days of refueling operations before returning to the gulf on the 15th.
The ship arrived in the landing area on the 19th and conducted fueling operations until 29 April when she set sail for Tawi Tawi in the Sulu Archipelago.
The oiler arrived at Yokosuka, Japan, on 17 January, discharged her cargo to ships at the naval base, and got underway for home again on the 24th.
www.multied.com /NAVY/oiler/Winooski2.html   (2569 words)

  
 Oiler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Houston Oilers, a National Football League team originally based in Houston, Texas, now in Nashville, Tennessee and known as the Tennessee Titans
in nautical terminology, an oiler is a type of ship
in labor, an oiler is a person, or job title of a person, who works at keeping machinery lubricated, such as within the engine compartment of a ship
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oiler   (144 words)

  
 USS Ashtabula
The oiler sailed for Pearl Harbor on New Year's Day, 1944, and remained there until 16 January when she sortied with Task Group (TG) 58.1 for operations supporting the occupation of the Marsball Islands.
The ship then began participating in the the Philippine Sea and its aftermath, she fueled ships of Task in the effort to take the Marianas.
The oiler departed the California coast on 28 January 1945, touched at Pearl Harbor on 3 February, and arrived at Eniwetok on 12 February.
www.multied.com /NAVY/Tankers/Ashtubala.html   (2184 words)

  
 Oiler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
All over the ship, though most of the maintenance is done in the machine room where it's usually hot.
In addition to base pay, everyone on board also receives a 15% Sea Premium Pay while the ship is away from home port and 8 hours overtime at time-and-a-half for each Saturday, Sunday, and holiday while the ship is away from home.
After 2 years in the service, he was the captain of his own ship and also worked as a ship's diver for NOAA.
www.punaridge.org /doc/journals/Careers/Oiler   (615 words)

  
 DND/CF : Backgrounder : The Joint Support Ship Project
The Joint Support Ship statement of requirements has been developed through operational research and analysis of a range of options, and was written and approved by the military, for the military.
The notional dimensions of the ship will be in the order of 200 metres in length, 26 metres in breadth and a displacement of 28,000 metric tonnes.
The ship will also be configured with both active and passive self-defence systems and an ability to navigate in first-year ice up to 0.7 metres thick.
www.forces.gc.ca /site/newsroom/view_news_e.asp?id=1346   (1450 words)

  
 Shipping, shipbuilding, offshore news
The ship, currently named Delos, is a brand new double hulled, environmentally sustainable oil tanker.
Senator Hill said the ship was selected from11 ships on the commercial market that were evaluated in a competitive process.
Tenders for a repairer/builder to modify the ship will be issued early next year with a preferred repair/builder to be selected by mid 2005.
www.marinelog.com /DOCS/NEWSMMIV/MMIVJun3.html   (370 words)

  
 USS Sims (DD-409) at Coral Sea
The American ships were divided into task forces centered around Lexington and Yorktown, Sims was ordered to escort oiler, Neosho (AO23).
A third attack against the two ships by 36 dive bombers was devastating.
Neosho was soon a blazing wreck as the result of seven direct hits and one plane that dived into her.
www.delsjourney.com /uss_neosho/coral_sea/other_ships/uss_sims.htm   (1353 words)

  
 MSC Oiler Completes Marathon Deployment in Support of 5th Fleet
The ship was in the Northern Arabian Gulf supporting amphibious forces when combat in Iraq commenced March 20.
Ericsson is one of 14 fleet oilers operated by the Navy's MSC, the ocean transportation provider for the Department of Defense.
MSC ship missions vary from underway replenishment and other fleet support like that provided by Ericsson, to the transport and afloat prepositioning of defense cargo, to at-sea data collection for the U.S. military and other U.S. government agencies.
www.news.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=7553   (491 words)

  
 informationsphere.com: Advanced Auxiliary Dry Cargo Ship
In its secondary mission, the T-AKE may be required to operate in concert with a Henry J. Kaiser-Class (T-AO 187) Oiler as a substitute station ship to provide direct logistics support to the ships within a Carrier Battle Group.
The intent of these contracts was to develop innovative integrated ship concepts with life cycle cost improvements by encouraging traditional builders of Navy ships to involve materials handling firms in system development.
The solicitation for Phase II of the program, Detail Design and Ship Construction, closed September 29, 2000 with a contract expected to be awarded in early calendar year 2001.
www.informationsphere.com /html/2808.htm   (336 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
For replenishment a distance line was passed to the oiler, and tended by a man on the main deck below the bridge.
All ships had the Universal breakaway coupling or International fueling breakaway coupling at the fore and aft fueling stations and they had been trained what to do in case of an emergency and when ordered to sever or take a sledge hammer and strike the International coupling thereby breaking it for an emergency break-away.
When I seen that the Oiler was moving ahead just a tad bit, I'd signal the throttleman to open the throttle a tad bit, and then I'd watch the response.
www.geocities.com /Hopewell_DD681/Refuling.htm   (1409 words)

  
 MSC Oiler Finishes Marathon Deployment in Support of Navy's Fifth Fleet
When Military Sealift Command oiler USNS John Ericsson arrived in Singapore in early April, it marked the end of a near record-setting deployment of 200 days for the ship and her crew in support of the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet in the Central Command area of operations.
The ship was in the extreme Northern Arabian Gulf supporting amphibious forces when combat in Iraq commenced on March 20.
USNS Ericsson is one of 14 fleet oilers operated by the Navy's Military Sealift Command, the ocean transportation provider for the Department of Defense.
www.msc.navy.mil /N00p/pressrel/press03/press23.htm   (442 words)

  
 T-AO 187 Henry J. Kaiser - Navy Ships
These ships have a capacity for small quantities of fresh and frozen provisions, stores, and other materials which will permit full replenishment of some of their customers.
Thirteen of these underway replenishment oilers are currently operated by Military Sealift Command and provide underway replenishment of fuel to US Navy ships at sea and jet fuel for aircraft assigned to aircraft carriers.
Kaiser the oiler: Saving money for the Navy's Tandem Thrust Military Sealift Command Newsrelease 04 Mar 1997 -- Kaiser's mission was changed from an underway replenishment oiler to a tanker with limited replenishment capabilities in January 1995, when she joined Military Sealift Command's Maritime Prepositioning Ships Squadron Two located off Diego Garcia.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/tao-187.htm   (967 words)

  
 NORFOLK-BASED OILER MERRIMACK DAMAGED BY FIRE; NO INJURIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A Norfolk-based oiler ship in the Mediterranean Sea was damaged Thursday when gases ignited in the exhaust stack of a boiler, the Navy said.
A Navy official in Norfolk said the ship was proceeding to Naples, Italy, to undergo complete boiler inspection and assistance by the tender Simon Lake.
Pietropaoli said combustible materials in the stack of the boiler had ignited while the ship's crew was performing drills to practice responding to engineering casualties.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp960531/05310534.htm   (221 words)

  
 US Navy on the T-AKE As It Beefs Up Supply Ship Capacity (updated) (defense acquisition, defence purchasing, military ...
The idea was that ships would contribute to America's overall shipbuilding infrastructure because their design would be a common hull having tremendous application to the civilian shipbuilding industry.
GlobalSecurity.org notes that this new class of ships was envisaged as the first Navy Environmentally Sound Ship of the 21st Century built with protection of the marine environment as a design objective.
Ship's class names are derived from the first ship in their class, so this is now the T-AKE-1 Lewis and Clark Class.
www.defenseindustrydaily.com /2006/02/us-navy-on-the-take-as-it-beefs-up-supply-ship-capacity-updated/index.php   (2025 words)

  
 110: Aviation Capable Ships Fundamentals
These ships are able to embark, deploy, and land a Marine battalion landing team by helicopters, landing craft, amphibious vehicles, and combinations of these methods.
They are designed based on that of an Amphibious Assault Ship, but are intended to be convertible from an Assault Ship to an Anti-submarine Warfare ship with Harrier fighters for ground assault.
They are primary landing ships, resembling small aircraft carriers, designed to put troops on hostile shores.
members.tripod.com /~Motomom/110ShipsC   (673 words)

  
 CNN.com - U.S. Navy fires on small boats thought to be pirates - May 3, 2002
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A U.S. Navy oiler ship was forced to fire its guns against a half dozen small power boats that approached it as the ship passed through the Straits of Hormuz on April 23 in the Persian Gulf near Iran.
Officials say they do not believe this was a terrorist incident, but may have been local pirates who may not have realized the ship they were trying to board was a U.S. Navy vessel.
Since the October 2000 bombing in Yemen of the USS Cole by terrorists who attacked on a small boat, Navy ships are under orders to not allow small unidentified boats to approach them.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/05/03/navy.pirate.attack   (329 words)

  
 SHIP DESIGNATIONS - Military Periscope
COMBATANT SHIPS WARSHIPS Aircraft Carriers All ships designed primarily for the purpose of conducting combat operations by aircraft which engage in attacks against airborne, surface, sub-surface, and shore targets.
Patrol Ships Patrol Combatant PG Guided Missile Patrol Combatant (Hydrofoil) PHM Amphibious Warfare Ships All ships having organic capability for amphibious assault and which have characteristics enabling long duration operations on the high seas.
Material Support Destroyer Tender AD Repair Ship AR Submarine Tender AS Support Ships A grouping of ships designed to operate in the open ocean in a variety of sea states to provide general support to either combatant forces or shore based establishments.
www.periscope.ucg.com /terms/t0000264.html   (474 words)

  
 Wreck diving in Philippines: Sangat, Coron Bay, Busuanga, Palawan (Zubi)
I have put this wreck as the first, because diving on this ship really makes you realize, that these ships were hit by bombs in the war and sank.
It is not certain which ship this is, I have read, that she might be the Morazon Maru or the Taiei Maru.
The main concentration of the ships were sunk in the bay in between Sangat island and Lusong, some started to leave and were sunk near Manglet island.
www.starfish.ch /dive/Sangat.html   (3263 words)

  
 AO22 USS Cimarron
Fleet Oiler USS Cimarron AO-22 Censor 1943, $5.00, -, Nov-11 17:30.
Ship Registry 1/144th Scale Ship Type Captain Status Carriers IJN...
MAURY (DD-401), and MONSSEN (DD-436), Oilers CIMARRON (AO-22), and PLATTE...
www.acctts.com /ao22cim/index3.htm   (848 words)

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