AO-57 Marias

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Cimarron, [AO].

Builder: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Sparrows Point, Maryland, U.S.A.

Launch date: 21 December 1943.

Commission date: 12 February 1944.

Decommission date: 02 October 1973.

Displacement ( tons ): 25.848 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 169 x 23 x 9,8

Main machinery: 4 x Foster Wheeler boilers, 2 x Bethlehem Shipbuilding geared turbines ( 13.500 hp ), 2 x propeller.

Speed ( knots ): 18.

Complement: 315 ( 24 officers ).

Guns: 1 x 130mm/38, 4 x 76mm/50, 8 x 40mm ( 4 x 2 ), 8 x 20mm ( 4 x 2 ).

Military lift: 146.000 barrels of liquid fuels.

Callsign: NZNL ()

Comment: Transferred to MSC, renumbered as TAO57 and kept active until 1982 where it was deactivated, transferred to James River Fleet Reserve and sold for scrapping in 1995.

Awards (as of 10/02/1973): 

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