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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

USNS Truckee (T-AO-147)
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USS Truckee (AO-147) (1955 - 1980)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Lima - Foxtrot - India NLFI

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Joint Meritorious Unit Award - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon
Second Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal (9 Lebanon & 1 Cuba) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Cuba & Lebanon)
Third Row - Southwest Asia Service Medal - Coast Guard Special Operations Ribbon - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)

Neosho Class Fleet Oiler:

Laid down, 21 December 1953, at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.

Launched, 10 March 1955

Commissioned USS Truckee (AO-147), 6 July 1955, CAPT. Joseph W. Leverton in command

Decommissioned, 30 January 1980 and placed in service with MSC as USNS Truckee (T-AO-147)

Placed out of service in 1994

Struck from the Naval Register, 18 July 1997

Title transfer to MARAD, 1 May 1999, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Lee Hall, VA.

Final Disposition, sold for scrap to Bay Bridge Enterprises, Chesapeake VA. for $1,231,328, announced by MARAD 15 July 2008

Specifications:
Displacement 11,600 t.(lt), 38,000 t.(fl)
Length 655'
Beam 86'
Draft 35'
Speed 20 kts.
Cargo Capacity 180,000 bbls
Complement

(USS) 324

(USNS) 106 civilian mariners, 21 navy
Armament

two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts

six twin 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
Propulsion two geared turbines, two boilers, two shafts, 28,000 shaft horsepower

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Truckee (AO-147)
	42k	*USS Truckee* (AO-147)** at sea in 1956.	Ken Kauffman
	71k	*USS Truckee* (AO-147) conducting an underway replenishment with USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39)**, circa 17 September to 4 October 1958.	.
	78k	*USS Truckee* (AO-147) pulls away from USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39)** after completing an underway replenishment, circa 17 September to 4 October 1958.	.
	88k	*USS Truckee* (AO-147)**, at Norfolk, VA, July 1964	© Richard Leonhardt
	83k	*USS Truckee* (AO-147)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, October 1964.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	137k	*USS Truckee* (AO-147)** entering/leaving port, date and place unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, February 1965.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	97k	*USS Truckee* (AO-147)** underway, date and location unknown. DOD photo # [DNST9100385]	Defense News Service
	78k	*USS Truckee* (AO-147)** underway, date and location unknown. DOD photo # [DNST9100544]	Defense News Service
USNS Truckee (T-AO-147)
	80k	*USNS Truckee* (T-AO-147) pier side at NOB Norfolk, VA, 1989. Photo shows damage to hull and bridge wing from collision with USS Yellowstone (AD-41)**.	Edward H. Cleary
	172k	*USNS Truckee* (T-AO-147) and the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)** conducting an underway replenishment at sea, date and location unknown.	Robert M. Cieri
	74k	Ex-*USNS Truckee* (T-AO-147)** underway in Hampton Roads off Portsmouth, VA. for the last time as she heads for the breakers yard at Bay Bridge Enterprises, Chesapeake VA.	Photo by Mabel Clark