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USS Nanticoke (AOG 66)

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Name
  
USS Nanticoke

Commissioned
  
1 September 1945

Construction started
  
16 January 1945

Length
  
107 m

Laid down
  
16 January 1945

Decommissioned
  
4 January 1946

Launched
  
7 April 1945

Builder
  
St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida

Fate
  
Acquired by Argentine Navy as Punta Delgada (B–16)

USS Nanticoke (AOG-66), a T1 tanker type gasoline tanker of the United States Navy, was laid down by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company in Jacksonville, Florida, under a Maritime Commission contract, on 16 January 1945; launched on 7 April 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Gustav W. Nelson; acquired by the Navy on 31 August 1945; and commissioned on 1 September 1945.

Service history

Assigned to the Naval Transportation Service, Nanticoke reported for duty on 18 October to the Service Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Arriving at Norfolk, Virginia, on 28 November, she was decommissioned there on 4 January 1946 and returned to the Maritime Commission on 12 January.

Briefly operated by the American Petroleum Transport Corporation as M/V Sugarland in 1946, she was acquired later in the year by the Argentine Navy and commissioned as ARA Punta Delgada (B–16). She served as part of the Argentine Navy until 1985, when she burnt and sank.

References

USS Nanticoke (AOG-66) Wikipedia