USS Passumpsic (AO-107)

USNS Passumpsic (T-AO-107) in 1984
History
United States
Name:	USS Passumpsic
Namesake:	The Passumpsic River in Vermont
Builder:	Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Chester, Pennsylvania
Laid down:	8 March 1945
Launched:	31 October 1945
Commissioned:	1 April 1946
Decommissioned:	24 July 1973
In service:	1975
Out of service:	December 1991
Reclassified:	T-AO-107 on 24 July 1973
Struck:	17 December 1991 or 18 December 1991
Honors and awards:	Nine battle stars for Korean War service Personnel serving aboard Passumpsic during Operation Desert Storm may wear the Combat Action Ribbon
Fate:	Sold for scrapping 19 December 1991
General characteristics
Class and type:	Ashtabula-class oiler
Displacement:	As built: 7,423 tons (light); 25,500 tons (full load) After "jumboization": 12,840 tons (light); 34,350 tons (full load)
Length:	As built: 553 ft (169 m) After "jumboization": 644 ft (196 m)
Beam:	75 ft (23 m)
Draft:	As built: 32 ft (9.8 m) After "jumboization": 36 ft (11 m)
Installed power:	30,400 hp (22,700 kW)
Propulsion:	geared turbines, twin screws
Speed:	18.3 knots (33.9 km/h)
Capacity:	146,000 barrels (23,200 m3) of fuel oil
Complement:	304 (as USS Passumpsic)
Crew:	108 civilians plus a detachment of U.S. Navy personnel (as USNS Passumpsic)
Armament:	1 × 5-inch (127-mm) 38-caliber gun 4 × 3-inch (76.2-mm) 50-caliber guns 8 × 40 mm antiaircraft guns (4 × 2) 8 × 20 mm antiaircraft guns (4 × 2)
Notes:	"Jumboization" involved the lengthening of Passumpsic's hull and installation of additional cargo capacity during 1964–65.

USS Passumpsic (AO-107), the only United States Navy ship to bear the name, was an Ashtabula-class fleet replenishment oiler that served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1973, then transferred to the Military Sealift Command to continue service as United States Naval Ship USNS Passumpsic (T-AO-107). She was the only U.S. Navy ship to bear the name Passumpsic, after the Passumpsic River in Vermont.

USS Passumpsic (AO-107) was laid down on 8 March 1945 as Maritime Commission Hull 2703 by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Chester, Pennsylvania. She was launched on 31 October 1945, sponsored by Mrs. M. F. Draemel, wife of Rear Admiral Milo F. Draemel, then Commandant of the 4th Naval District, and commissioned on 1 April 1946, Captain C.M. Ryan in command. Due to her beginning as a "Maritime" Hull, Passumpsic has the distinction of being one of only six naval ships to have her Frame numbers running from Aft - Forward, instead of Forward to Aft.

After a shakedown in the Caribbean Sea, Passumpsic operated out of Long Beach, California, under the control of Commander, Service Force Pacific, servicing U.S. Pacific Fleet units while attached to Service Squadron 1 and Service Squadron 3. She visited Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, North Borneo, the Fiji Islands, Australia, Arabia, Ceylon, the Philippines, Midway Atoll, Oahu, the Marshall Islands, and the Mariana Islands.