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YOG-48
AOG-18 Pasquotank

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Charlie - Juliet - Oscar
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines LIberation Medal
Mettawee Class Gasoline Tanker:
  • Laid down, as MV Tongue River, a Maritime Commission type (T1-M-A1) tanker hull, 13 August 1942, under Maritime Commission contract (MC 900) at East Coast Shipyard Inc., Bayonne, N.J.
  • Classified (YOG-48)
  • Launched, 28 November 1942
  • Reclassified, (AOG-18), 25 March 1943, LT. Alford R. Norris USNR in command
  • Commissioned USS Pasquotank (AOG-18), 26 August 1943
  • Decommissioned, 27 March 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, name reverted to MV Tongue River
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 2 March 1964, to National Metals & Steel Corp.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,225 t.(fl)
    Length 220' 6"
    Beam 37'
    Draft 13'
    Speed 10 kts.
    Complement 62
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    two single 40mm AA gun mounts
    Cargo Capacity 1,228 DWT
    Propulsion diesel direct drive, single screw, 720hp
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