Type T1 Tankers of the United States Navy - Type T1-M-A1 Tankers of the United States Navy, Type T1-M-A2 Tankers of the United States Navy (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Type T1-M-A1 Tankers of the United States Navy, Type T1-M-A2 Tankers of the United States Navy, Type T1-M-Bt2 Tankers of the United States Navy, Uss Yahara, Uss Seekonk, Uss Waupaca, Uss Ontonagon, Uss Ammonusuc, Uss Kalamazoo, Uss Mettawee, Uss Narraguagas, Uss Towaliga, Uss Calamus, Uss Pasquotank, Uss Tetonkaha, Uss Wakulla, Uss Wautauga, Uss Tularosa, Uss Sequatchie, Uss Gualala, Uss Ponchatoula, Uss Ogeechee, Usns Tonti, Uss Oconee, Uss Yacona, Uss Ochlockonee, Uss Kanawha, Uss Sacandaga, Uss Hiwassee, Uss Sakatonchee, Uss Chiwaukum, Uss Escatawpa, Uss Sheepscot, Uss Quastinet. Excerpt: USS Yahara (AOG-37) was a Mettawee-class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations. Yahara was named by the U.S. Navy after the Yahara, a river which rises at a small lake in Dane County, Wisconsin, and flows south and southeast past Madison, Wisconsin, to empty into the Rock River about nine miles northwest of Janesville. Yahara was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1800) on 6 June 1944 at Bayonne, New Jersey, by the East Coast Shipyard, Inc.; launched on 30 July 1944; sponsored by Miss Cynthia Tenety; converted for naval service at Brooklyn, New York, by the Marine Basin Co.; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 29 September 1944, Lt. N. Clark Biggs, USNR, in command. The new gasoline tanker got underway for Norfolk, Virginia, on 30 October. Following shakedown in Chesapeake Bay, Yahara sailed for the Netherlands West Indies on 22 November to take on a cargo of aviation gasoline and diesel oil at Aruba. Loaded to capacity, she sailed on 1 December for the west coast; transited the Panama Canal on the 6th; and proceeded ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11401389