USS Mississinewa (AO-59)
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| Name: | USS Mississinewa |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard |
| Laid down: | 5 October 1943 |
| Launched: | 28 March 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 19 May 1944 |
| Honors and awards: |
4 battle stars (WWII) |
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| Status: | Sunk at a depth of 22 meters, 1,200 mt north of Mogmog island, Ulithi, Micronesia |
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| Class and type: | Cimarron-class fleet replenishment oiler |
| Type: | T3-S2-A1 tanker |
| Displacement: | 25,425 long tons (25,833 t) |
| Length: | 553 ft (169 m) |
| Beam: | 75 ft (23 m) |
| Draft: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Installed power: | 30,400 shp (22,700 kW) |
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| Speed: | 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 146,000 barrels (23,200 m3) |
| Complement: | 21 officers and 278 enlisted |
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USS Mississinewa (AO-59) was the first of two United States Navy ships of the name. She was a T3-S2-A1 Auxiliary Oiler of the US Navy, laid down on 5 October 1943 by the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Inc., Sparrows Point, Maryland; launched on 28 March 1944; sponsored by Miss Margaret Pence; and commissioned on 18 May 1944. Mississinewa was commanded by Captain Philip G. Beck.
Mississinewa began her brief but active wartime service on 18 May 1944. Having completed shakedown in the Chesapeake Bay, she sailed for Aruba, Netherland West Indies, to take on her first cargo. Filling her cargo tanks on 23–24 June she continued on to the Pacific Ocean, arriving Pearl Harbor on 10 July. As a unit of Service Squadron 10 (ServRon 10), she then steamed to Eniwetok where she first fueled ships of the 3rd Fleet. On 25 August, she got underway for Manus where she supplied fuel and stores and delivered mail to ships of TF 38, the fast carrier force, 32 and 31 during the assault and occupation of the Palaus.
Returning to Manus on 30 September, she replenished her tanks and again headed north to refuel TF 38 as that force struck at Japanese shipping and shore installations in the Philippines, on Taiwan, and in the Ryukyus in preparation for the Philippine campaign. On 19 October, having emptied her tanks into ships scheduled to take part in the landings at Leyte, she sailed to Ulithi in the Caroline Islands, her new base. Thence in early November, Mississinewa sailed her last fueling at sea assignment, returning on the 15th.
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