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USS Ashtabula
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USS Ashtabula (AO-51) was a Cimarron-class fleet oiler of the United States Navy in service from 1943 to 1991. She survived three wars and was awarded eight battle stars for World War II service, four battle stars for Korean War service, and eight campaign stars for Vietnam War service. In the mid-1960s Ashtabula became the lead ship of her class, when she and seven other Cimarron-class oilers were lengthened ("jumboized"). She has been the only U.S. Navy ship to bear the name Ashtabula, after the City of Ashtabula which was named after the Ashtabula River in northeast Ohio.
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Name | USS Ashtabula |
Namesake | The City of Ashtabula named after the Ashtabula River in Northeast Ohio |
Ordered | as T3-S2-A1 tanker hull; MC hull 717 |
Laid down | 1 October 1942 |
Launched | 22 May 1943 |
Acquired | 7 August 1943 |
Commissioned | 7 August 1943 |
Decommissioned | 30 September 1982 |
Stricken | 6 September 1991 |
Homeport | Long Beach, California Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
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Fate | Partially scrapped 1995, expended as SINKEX target ship, 15 October 2000 |
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Class and type | Cimarron-class replenishment oiler |
Displacement | 7,470 t.(lt) 25,450 t.(fl) as built 16,500 t. (lt) 36,500 t.(fl) Jumboized |
Length | 553 ft (169 m) as built 664 ft (202 m) Jumboized |
Beam | 75 ft (23 m) |
Draught | 32 ft 4 in (9.86 m) |
Propulsion | four Foster Wheeler boilers, steam turbines, twin screws. 13,500shp |
Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h). |
Complement | 19 Officers, 284 Enlisted |
Armament | four single 5 in (130 mm) dual purpose gun mounts; four single 40 mm AA gun mounts; four twin 40 mm AA gun mounts; eight single 20 mm guns AA gun mounts |
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