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AOG-11 Tombigbee

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Charlie - Echo - Yankee NCEY

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal
Second Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Third Row - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Korean Service Medal - Antarctic Service Medal
Fourth Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (3-Vietnam) - Vietnam Service Medal (9) - Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation (6)
Fifth Row - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)

Tombigbee (AOG-11) transferred to Greece, renamed HRNS Ariadni (A-414)

Patapsco Class Gasoline Tanker:

Laid down, 23 October 1942, at Cargill Inc., Savage, MN.

Launched, 18 November 1943

Commissioned USS Tombigbee (AOG-11), 13 July 1944, LCDR. A. O. Askland, USNR, in command

During WWII Tombigbee was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Iwo Jima operation Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 25 February to 9 March 1945	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 April to 30 June 1945

Decommissioned, 12 December 1949

Laid up in the Reserve Fleet

Recommissioned, 28 July 1950

During the Vietnam War Tombigbee participated in the following campaigns:

**Vietnam War Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Vietnamese Counteroffensive 1 April to 7 June 1966	Tet69/Counteroffensive 8 March to 7 April 1969 29 April to 19 May 1969
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II 10 July to 29 August 1966 1 September 1966	Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970 7 to 17 February 1970 11 to 13 and 22 to 27 April 1970
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III 3 to 13 October 1967 28 to 31 December 1967 19 to 27 January 1968	Sanctuary Counteroffensive 25 May to 7 June 1970
Tet Counteroffensive 23 February to 21 March 1968	Consolidation I 16 to 26 August 1971 27 September to 13 October 1971 29 October to 8 November 1971
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VI 21 November 1968 to 19 February 1969	.

Decommissioned, 7 July 1972

Struck from the Naval Register, 15 April 1978

Transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal

Sold through the Security Assistance Program to Greece, 1 July 1978, renamed HRNS Ariadni (A-414)

Final Disposition, to be withdrawn from Greek naval service in 2003, fate unknown

Tombigbee earned two battle stars for World War II service and nine campaign stars for Vietnam War service

Specifications:
Displacement 1,850 t.(lt) 4,130 t.(fl)
Length 310' 9"
Beam 48' 6"
Draft 15' 8"
Speed 15.5 kts.
Complement 131
Armament

four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts

twelve single 20mm AA gun mounts
Cargo Capacity 2,210 DWT
Propulsion four GE diesel electric engines, twin shafts, 3,300hp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Tombigbee (AOG-11)
	84k	Tombigbee (AOG-11) underway, date and location unknown. She is painted camouflage scheme 32/3D.	Paul Gryniewicz Courtesy Larry Sullivan
	129k	Tombigbee (AOG-11) underway, date and location unknown. She is painted camouflage scheme 32/3D.	Paul Gryniewicz Courtesy Larry Sullivan
	131k	Tombigbee (AOG-11) offloading a cargo of JP-4 in McMurdo Sound Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze in January 1962. CAPT. McSweeny was Commanding Officer of *Tombigbee* 1962 to 1964, before resigning his commission to attend law school..	Robert H. McSweeny CAPT. JAGC, USNR, Ret.
	142k	Bow view of Tombigbee (AOG-11), 8 June 1967, while operating off the coast of Oahu, HI. Fleet Air Photo Lab. NAS Barbers Point, HI. photo # USN-VC-1-33378-6-67 by PH2 A. C. Unger.	Robert M. Cieri
	87k	Tombigbee (AOG-11) departing Pearl Harbor, HI, October 1968	©Richard Leonhardt
HRNS Ariadni (A-414)
	31k	Ex-Tombigbee (AOG-11) in Hellenic naval service as *HRNS Ariadni* (A-414)** in an Unrep with ex-Semmes (DDG-18) HRNS Kimon of the Greek Navy, August 2001. Photo by Theodore L. Valmas, Correspondent, Janes International Defense Review	Paul Gryniewicz
	41k	*HRNS Ariadni* (A-414)** in an Unrep with ex- Semmes (DDG-18) HRNS Kimon of the Greek Navy, August 2001. Photo by Theodore L. Valmas, Correspondent, Janes International Defense Review	Paul Gryniewicz
	68k	*HRNS Ariadni* (A-414)** in an Unrep with ex- Semmes (DDG-18) HRNS Kimon of the Greek Navy, August 2001. Photo by Theodore L. Valmas, Correspondent, Janes International Defense Review	Paul Gryniewicz

View the Tombigbee (AOG-11)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Avgas Mogas & Jet Fuel - The Story of the Patapsco Class Gasoline Tanker

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