Laid down 1920 Decommissioned 7 February 1946 Type Tanker Length 148 m Weight 19,230 tons Draft 8.5 m | Commissioned 29 November 1944 Fate Returned to the WSA Beam 62 ft 8 in (19.10 m) Construction started 1920 Displacement 17.17 million kg | |
Builder Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation | ||
USS Chotauk (IX-188), an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the victim of a typographical error: she was intended to be named for USS Chotank. Her keel was laid down in 1920 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, as Japan Arrow (later renamed American Arrow), transferred from the War Shipping Administration at Pearl Harbor on 29 November 1944, and commissioned the same day with Lieutenant Commander W. D. Baker, USNR, in command.
Chotauk served as a station tanker with the Pacific Fleet at Eniwetok from 3 January to 14 February 1945, Ulithi from 23 February to 10 July, and Okinawa from 17 July to 29 October. She returned to Mobile, Alabama, on 5 January 1946. Chotauk was decommissioned there and returned to the War Shipping Administration on 7 February 1946.