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AOG-63 Klaskanine


USS Klaskanine (AOG-63) was sold to Brazil and renamed Raza (G-19)
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Mettawee Class Gasoline Tanker:
  • Laid down, 24 April 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (T1-M-A2) tanker hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC 2657) at East Coast Shipyards Inc., Bayonne, N.J.
  • Launched, 3 February 1945
  • Acquired by the Navy, 26 February 1945
  • Commissioned USS Klaskanine (AOG-63), 8 March 1945
  • Decommissioned and returned to the Maritime Commission, 25 March 1946, at San Francisco, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Transferred (sold) to Brazil (date unknown), renamed Raza (G-19)
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1971
    Specifications:
    Displacement 845 t.(lt) 2,270 t.(fl)
    Length 220' 6"
    Beam 37'
    Draft 13' 11"
    Speed 10 kts.
    Complement 62
    Armament one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 40mm guns, three single 20mm gun mounts
    Cargo Capacity 1,228 DWT
    Propulsion diesel direct drive, single screw, 720hp
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    Raza (G-19)
    Klaskanine 45k ex-Klaskanine (AOG-63) in Brazilian service as Raza (G-19), drydocked, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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