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
Stricken
17 December 1991 or 18 December 1991[1]
Identification
IMO number: 7737145
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[2]
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 in (130 mm) 38-caliber gun
4 × 3 in (76 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.[3]
^Sources differ on the date. The discrepancy likely arises because she was in the Philippines when stricken, leading some sources to cite the date in the Philippines at the time of striking and others to cite the date on the other side of the International Date Line in the United States.
^Some sources refer to this class as the Mispillion class
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