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Fleet Oilers, Fleet Replenishment Oilers (AO, T-AO): United States Navy oiler | Replenishment oiler small yes | colwidth 19em Kanawha | AO-1 ...
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The first underway refueling conducted by the US Navy was the astern replenishment of the destroyer Hogan by the oiler Cuyama in 1921; further experiments with Cuyama and Kanawha led the Navy to conclude that the rate of fuel transfer was too slow to be useful. This however was the method used by the Soviet navy for many decades after the end of World War II.
The oiler was assigned to Squadron 8, Base Force Train, and operated ... and made periodic voyages south to Seattle and San Francisco to replenish. ...
16 December US Salinas | Patoka class fleet replenishment oiler | AO-19 | ! Unknown CHL Almirante Latorre | Iron Duke class class ...
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Salinas (AO-19), one of the older generation of Navy oilers, riding light in the water with much of her dark red bottom paint showing. Unlike later ships of this type, she does NOT have the extensive equipment required for underway replenishment.
Construction of the twelve national defense tankers ordered by the maritime commission began on 25 April 1938.4 On that date the keel for the first of these vessels, Cimarron, was laid at the Chester yards of the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. The following day, President Roosevelt signed the Naval Appropriation Act for FY 1939, allocating $140 million for new ship construction.5 By then, both houses of Congress were nearing agreement on a billion dollar naval expansion bill, which would become known as the Second Vinson Act.
Introduced in early January by Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, the proposed bill would increase the size of the navy by 20 percent. On the very day Vinson first presented the measure, Roosevelt again interceded on behalf of the navy delivering a strong, special message to Congress stressing the need to maintain military strength in both oceans and in regions far beyond American shores.6 When signed into law on 17 May, the final version of Vinson's bill (Public Law 528) authorized appropriations for 46 more fighting ships, 26 auxiliaries, and 950 airplanes.7
Funding to commence work on the first 9 auxiliaries scheduled, including 4 oilers, was quickly appropriated by Congress on 25 June 1938.8 With the passage of this act, the navy had authorization and funding to construct or acquire a total of 5 modern fleet oilers. @ http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/GSBO/GSBO-09.html
www.usni.org/store/books/history/agents-innovationJohn T. Kuehn is a 2011 Moncado Prize Winner recipient for his article: “The U.S. ... of the U.S. Navy as an agent of innovation in the years between the world wars. ... my interview of the author on USNI Blog. http://blog.usni.org/?p=2560 Enjoy! ...
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