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Sara Thompson, 2690/5840 tons, was also British-built, in 1888 as the SS Gut Heil, and was purchased in 1917. Robert L. Barnes, a 1630/3850-ton Great Lakes tanker, was built in 1914 and purchased in 1918. With the advent of the Navy's new hull-numbering system in 1920 they were designated AO-8 and AO-14.
Armament. 2 × single 5"/38 caliber guns. 4 × twin 20 mm guns. USS Ramapo (AO-12), was a Patoka -class replenishment oiler. It was built under U.S. Shipping Board contract, was laid down on 16 January 1919 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia; launched on 11 September 1919; and commissioned on 15 November 1919.
The BRP Lake Caliraya (AF-81) was a Philippine Navy small replenishment tanker. The ship was formerly a double-hulled oil products tanker of the now defunct Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) Shipping and Transport Corporation, [3] and was donated to the Philippine Navy in 2014 [4] together with two other tankers of the company.
In the post-war period Guadalupe remained on duty in the Pacific, supplying fuel oil to American units in Japan, China, Korea, the Philippines, and scores of islands. Some of this fuel oil she picked up at Bahrain , Arabia , as she sailed from the Far East to Norfolk via the Suez Canal and Gibraltar in 1948, returning over the same route.
A Philippine oil tanker sank in Manila Bay early Thursday after encountering huge waves, leaving a crewman dead and 16 others rescued in a late-night operation by the coast guard. The force was ...
An oil slick about 3.7 kilometers (2.3 miles) long near the rough seawaters where the tanker sank, about 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) off Bataan province’s Limay town, came from the fuel tank that ...
July 25, 2024 at 10:37 AM. File photo of an oil tanker at sea. The Philippines is in a race against time to contain an oil spill after a tanker carrying close to 1.5 million litres (400,000 ...
The John Lewis class is a class of fleet replenishment oilers which began construction in September 2018. [1] The class will comprise twenty oilers which will be operated by Military Sealift Command to provide underway replenishment of fuel and limited amounts of dry cargo to United States Navy carrier strike groups, amphibious ready groups, and other surface forces, to allow them to operate ...