Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia
Laid down
17 December 1918
Launched
26 July 1919
Acquired
3 September 1919
Commissioned
13 October 1919
Decommissioned
31 August 1933
Recommissioned
10 November 1939
Decommissioned
1 July 1946
Stricken
31 July 1946
Fate
Scrapped, 15 March 1948
General characteristics
Class and type
Patoka Replenishment oiler
Displacement
16,800 long tons (17,070 t)
Length
477 ft 10 in (145.64 m)
Beam
60 ft (18 m)
Draft
26 ft 2 in (7.98 m)
Speed
11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement
168
Armament
2 × 5 in (130 mm) guns
4 × 40 mm guns
USS Patoka (AO–9/AV–6/AG–125) was a replenishment oiler made famous as a tender for the airships Shenandoah (ZR-1), Los Angeles (ZR-3) and Akron (ZRS-4). It was also notable in that its height (177 feet (54 m)) figured prominently in the design of the Rainbow Bridge in Texas (the bridge design required that the Patoka, then the tallest ship in the U.S. Navy, could sail under it; however, it never did).
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the 21-year-old oil tanker Patoka (AO-9) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington. Sprague commanded Patoka until June 1940, when he was...
made in mooring airships to a mast mounted on the ship USSPatoka. Over time the airships USS Shenandoah, Los Angeles, and Akron all moored to the mast...
twin airborne aircraft carrier U.S. Navy helium-filled rigids, the USS Akron and USS Macon respectively, and the 1937 burning of the German hydrogen-filled...
days of early 1942). Patoka (AO-9), later AV-6 and AG-125. Patoka served as tender for the airships USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) and USS Shenandoah (ZR-1). Sapelo (AO-11)...
Two battleships, USS New York (BB-34) and USS Oklahoma (BB-37) simulated aircraft carriers modeled after the under-construction USS Langley (CV-1). A...
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and then Wyandotte in 1869, and decommissioned in 1898. USS Tippecanoe (AO-21), was a Patoka-class fleet replenishment oiler launched in 1920, commissioned...
USS Ramapo (AO-12), was a Patoka-class replenishment oiler. It was built under U.S. Shipping Board contract, was laid down on 16 January 1919 by the Newport...
August 8 – The U.S. Navy dirigible USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) docks with the airship tender USSPatoka (AO-9) while the Patoka is underway off Newport, Rhode Island...
Hoover's retreat Rapidan River Rapidan Wildlife Management Area USS Rapidan (1919–1946), a Patoka-class replenishment oiler Rapydan, a local anesthetic combination...
along with a pressure of 979 mbar (hPa; 28.91 inHg), measured by the USSPatoka. Gale-force winds extended to at least New Jersey, where winds of 70 mph...
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history equipped to operate airships, balloons, and seaplanes. She and USSPatoka (AO-9) are the only ships ever fitted with an airship mooring mast. No...
USS Trinity (AO-13) was a Patoka-class replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. Trinity was laid down on 10 November 1919 at Newport News, Virginia...
Aircraft Tenders for naval kite balloon and rigid airship support. USS Wright (AZ-1) USSPatoka (AO-9) operated as a lighter-than-air aircraft tender from 1924...
Fleetco, a Patoka Replenishment oiler built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, for the United States Shipping Board...
USS Sapelo (AO-11) was a Patoka-class fleet replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. Laid down on 3 May 1919 for the United States Shipping Board...
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