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AO-18 Rapidan

Patoka Class Fleet Oiler: Laid down, 2 February 1919, under USSB contract, at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Co., Newport News, VA.; Launched, 29 October 1919; Transferred to the Navy, 29 October 1921; Commissioned USS Rapidan (AO-18), 1 January 1922; Decommissioned, 22 June 1922; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA.; Recommissioned, 22 January 1940; Decommissioned, 17 September 1946, at Portsmouth, VA.; Struck from the Naval Register, 29 October 1946; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 10 September 1947, to Northern Metals Co.

Specifications: Displacement 5,400 t.(lt) 16,800 t.(fl); Length 447' 10"; Beam 60'; Draft 26' 2"(mean); Speed 11.2kts; Complement 90; Capacity, 70,000 bbls; Armament two 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts, four twin 40mm gun mounts, four twin 20mm gun mounts; Propulsion, reciprocating (#13 geared turbine) engines, single screw, 2,800 shp.

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	45k	Rapidan (AO-18), date and place unknown.		Hyperwar US Navy in WWII web site

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Fleet Reserve Association

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