Cimarron-class oiler (1939)
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The Cimarron-class oilers were an underway replenishment class of oil tankers which were first built in 1939 as "National Defense Tankers," United States Maritime Commission Type T3-S2-A1, designed "t
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USS Cimarron (AO-22)
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USS Cimarron was the lead ship of the US Navy's Cimarron-class fleet oiler, serving from before World War II until the Vietnam War. She was the second ship to be named for the Cimarron River, that run
Cimarron-class oiler (1939)
…carriers in 1942; two others were sunk by enemy action. Ships Ships in class Name Hull number Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Fate Cimarron AO-22 Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. 18 April 1938 7 January 1939 20 March 1939 1 October 1968 Struck 10 October 1968, Sold for scrap 1969 Neosho AO-23…
USS Cimarron (AO-22), off the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, on 6 February 1942
Cimarron replenishing Hornet and Nicholas, ca. 1966