USS Flambeau (IX-912)

For other ships going by the same name, see USS Flambeau.

History

United States
Laid down:	1919
Commissioned:	8 January 1945
Decommissioned:	6 April 1946
Fate:	returned to the WSA
General characteristics
Displacement:	15,800 tons
Length:	445 ft (136 m)
Beam:	59 ft (18 m)
Draught:	26 ft 6 in (8.08 m)
Speed:	10 knots
Complement:	83 officers and men
Armament:	one five-inch gun, one three-inch gun

USS Flambeau (IX-192), a tanker designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for a flaming torch. Her keel was laid down in 1919 by Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, in Chester, Pennsylvania, as S. B. Hunt. She was acquired by the Navy 8 January 1945 at Pearl Harbor, and commissioned the same day with Lieutenant R. S. Green, USNR, in command.

Flambeau was converted for use as an oil storage ship in which capacity she served at Saipan until July, and then at Iwo Jima. She sailed from Pearl Harbor 30 December for Norfolk, Virginia, where she was decommissioned on 6 April 1946, and returned to the War Shipping Administration.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

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