Kawishiwi (AO-146) was a Neosho-class replenishment oiler of the United States Navy, in service between 1955 and 1992. Kawishiwi was launched 11 December 1954 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, N.J.; sponsored by Mrs. Edmund T. Wooldridge; and commissioned 6 …

USS Kawishiwi (AO-146) was launched on December 11, 1954 and was commissioned on July 6, 1955. Kawishiwi arrived at its home port of Long Beach, California on December 8, 1955. The Kawishiwi spent the next year replenishing ships of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet serving in East and Southeast Asia.

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Kawishiwi arrived Pearl Harbor, her home port, 21 January 1958, and 1 month later sailed for her third Westpac deployment. Her ability to refuel ships at a rapid rate increased the mobility of...

USNS KAWISHIWI was the fourth NEOSHO - class fleet oiler. The ship transfered to the Military Sealift Command on October 10, 1979. Decommissioned in 1992, the KAWISHIWI was stricken from the Navy list on November 7, 1994, and was subsequently berthed with the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, Benicia, Calif., awaiting final disposal.

2013年2月27日 · The USS Kawishiwi was a uniquely American ship: named for a Minnesotan river, built in a New Jersey shipyard, and commissioned in a Philadelphia Naval base, the seven million gallon oil carrier served the 7 th Fleet in the Pacific for more than 30 years of the Cold War. In 1979 it retired from active US duty.

Kawishiwi arrived Pearl Harbor, her home port, 21 January 1958, and 1 month later sailed for her third Westpac deployment. Her ability to refuel ships at a rapid rate increased the mobility of the U.S. 7th Fleet as it protected peace in the Par East.

Welcome aboard the USS KAWISHIWI (AO-146), one of the mighty, super-oilers servicing the United States Pacific Fleet, providing vital petroleum products to aircraft carrier and destroyer alike, and enabling Fleet units to remain at sea for weeks, or even months, at a time without having to port to refuel.

2022年9月23日 · Media in category "USS Kawishiwi (AO-146)" The following 18 files are in this category, out of 18 total. A port bow view of the Neosho class oiler USNS KAWISHIWI (TAO 146) with fuel lines extended to the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63) during underway replenishment operations.

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