Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania
Laid down
1 November 1942
Launched
10 March 1943
Commissioned
27 April 1943
Decommissioned
15 May 1946
Stricken
4 January 1980
Identification
IMO number: 7939016
Honors and awards
2 battle stars (World War II)
Fate
Transferred to MARAD for disposal, 1980
General characteristics
Type
Suamico-class fleet replenishment oiler
Displacement
5,782 long tons (5,875 t) light
21,880 long tons (22,231 t) full
Length
523 ft 6 in (159.56 m)
Beam
68 ft (21 m)
Draft
30 ft (9.1 m)
Propulsion
Turbo-electric, single screw, 8,000 hp (5,966 kW)
Speed
15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)
Boats & landing craft carried
2
Capacity
140,000 barrels (22,000 m3)
Complement
232 to 251
Armament
1 × 5"/38 caliber gun
4 × 3"/50 caliber guns
4 × twin 40 mm AA guns
4 × twin 20 mm AA guns
USS Chepachet (AO-78), originally named SS Eutaw Springs, and later known as USNS Chepachet (T-AOT-78) until disposition, was a Suamico-class fleet oiler, of the T2-SE-A1 tanker hull type, serving in the United States Navy during World War II. Originally a namesake of the Battle of Eutaw Springs when laid down 1 November 1942, she was renamed for the Chepachet River located in a village of Glocester, Rhode Island bearing the same name.
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war supplies by air. The naval component consisted of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal, a helicopter carrier and six destroyers from the Second Fleet...
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