Kaweah-class oiler

Kaweah-class oiler
File:USS Mattole (AO-17) underway off Virginia Beach on 7 October 1944 (80-G-281873).jpg USS Mattole
Class overview
Name:	Kaweah class
Builders:	William Cramp & Sons
Operators:	United States Navy
Preceded by:	Patoka class
Succeeded by:	Cimarron class
Subclasses:	Alameda class
Built:	1918-1921
In commission:	1919-1946
Planned:	4
Completed:	4
Retired:	4
General characteristics
Type:	Oil tanker
Displacement:	4,410 long tons (4,481 t) light 14,450 long tons (14,682 t) full load
Length:	446 ft (136 m)
Beam:	58 ft (18 m) (waterline)
Draft:	25 ft 6 in (7.77 m) (mean)
Depth:	33 ft 3 in (10.13 m)
Installed power:	2,800 shp (2,100 kW)
Propulsion:	1 × triple-expansion steam engine 1 × shaft
Speed:	11 knots (20 km/h)
Capacity:	1,000 tons
Complement:	252
Armament:	2 × single 5-inch/38-caliber guns 2 × dual Bofors 40 mm guns 2 × dual Oerlikon 20 mm cannons

The Kaweah-class oiler was a class of oil tankers of United States Navy during the Second World War.

Development

Four oilers were ordered for construction by the William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia. These ships were the remaining four 1917 program oilers, 5450/14,500-ton tankers built to USSB Design 1128 between 1919 and 1921. Similar in size and speed to the Patoka-class, the Alameda and Kaweah-classes also served principally as transport tankers.

Ships of class

Pennant number	Name	Callsign	Builders	Launched	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Fate
Alameda-class oiler
AO-10	Alameda	NJRS	William Cramp & Sons	15 July 1919	17 October 1919	29 March 1946	Scrapped on 21 January 1947
Kaweah-class oiler
AO-15	Kaweah	NUGK	William Cramp & Sons	1919	28 December 1921	16 November 1945	Scrapped on 28 May 1946
AO-16	Laramie	NUGL			28 December 1921	16 November 1945	Scrapped on 28 May 1946
AO-17	Mattole	NUGM		16 March 1920	28 December 1921	25 October 1945	Scrapped on 28 May 1946