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{{Infobox ship |Ship image=USS Klickitat (AOG-64).jpg |Ship caption=USS Klickitat (AOG-64), date and location unknown

|module= Career US flag 48 stars Name: Klickitat Namesake: Klickitat RiverOrdered: as type (T1-M-BT1) hull, MC hull 2624Awarded: 26 July 1944Builder: St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1]Cost: $1,022,203.48[2]Yard number: 83Way number: 3Laid down: 16 December 1944Launched: 24 March 1945Sponsored by: Mrs. I. B. McDanielCommissioned: 14 July 1945Decommissioned: 23 January 1946Struck: 7 February 1946Identification:

Sold for commercial use, 20 August 1948 |module2= Career (United States) Flag of the United States Name: CaptainOwner: Manuel Rodriguez Trading Corp.Fate: Wrecked and rebuilt, 1948Status: Sold to Argentina, 14 June 1949Notes: Sold to Argentina without cost USS Klickitat (AOG-64), was the lead ship of the type T1 Klickitat-class gasoline tanker built for the US Navy during World War II. She was named after the Klickitat River, in Washington.

Construction[]

Klickitat was laid down on 16 December 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2624, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; sponsored by Mrs. I. B. McDaniel; acquired by the US Navy and commissioned 14 July 1945, Lieutenant M. J. Seibert, USCG, in command.[1][2][3]

Service history[]

Departing Jacksonville, 28 July, Klickitat arrived Hampton Roads, Virginia, 31 July. After shakedown in the Chesapeake Bay, the gasoline tanker proceeded on 23 August, for Rockland, Maine, arriving 26 August. She returned to Norfolk, 3 September, and departed 23 November, with her sister ship Michigamme, for Houston, Texas. Arriving 2 December, she loaded a cargo of diesel oil, sailed 3 December, for the East Coast, and arrived Norfolk, 12 December. Remaining at Norfolk, Klickitat decommissioned 23 January 1946, and was returned to the Maritime Commission (MARCOM) 24 January. Her name was struck from the Navy List 7 February 1946.[3] Klickitat was laid up in the James River Reserve Fleet, Lee Hall, Virginia, on 24 January 1946. On 20 August 1948, she was sold for commercial use to Manuel Rodriguez Trading Corp., and renamed Captain. Wrecked in 1948, she was rebuilt and sold to the Argentine Navy at no cost and renamed Punta Loyola.[4][5][3]

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