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AOG-14 Aroostook

Aroostook Class Gasoline Tanker: Laid down, as the tank barge Esso Delivery No.11, at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Co., Newport News, VA.; Launched, 8 December 1937; Delivered to the Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey, 8 February 1938; Acquired by the Navy, 1 April 1943; Converted for Naval service at the Key Highway plant of Bethlehem Steel Corp., Baltimore, MD.; Commissioned USS Aroostook (AOG-14), 18 April 1943, at Baltimore; Decommissioned, 18 January 1945 at Bizerte, Algeria; Transferred to France under terms of the lend-lease program, 19 January 1945, and renamed Lac Pavin; Sold outright to France, 21 March 1949; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Final Disposition, scrapped, 1953.

Specifications: Displacement 1,707 t.; Length 260' 6"; Beam 43' 6"; Draft 15' 11"; Speed 10.5kts; Armament, one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, four 20mm guns; Propulsion, diesel-electric, single propeller.

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