USS Pinnebog (AOG-58)

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Career

Built as:	A Maritime Commission type (T1-MT-M1) tanker hull
Laid down:	29 December 1944
Launched:	12 May 1945
Commissioned:	USS Pinnebog (AOG-58), 20 October 1945
Battle Stars:	Not known
Reclassified as:	USNS Pinnebog (T-AOG-58), March 1952
Decommissioned:	Not known
Struck:	Date Unknown
Fate:	Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 15 December 1987
General characteristics
Class:	Patapsco Class Gasoline Tanker
Displacement:	1,846 t.(lt), 4,130 t.(fl)
Length:	310' 9"
Beam:	48' 6"
Draft:	15' 8"
Speed:	14 kts.
Complement:	131
Armament:	Four 3"/50 gun mounts. 12 20mm gun mounts; Cargo DWT 2,120
Propulsion:	Four 980 hp General Electric diesel engines, electric drive, twin shafts, 3,300shp

USS Pinnebog (AOG–58) was a Patapsco-class gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations.

Pinnebog was laid down, 29 December 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (T1-MT-M1) tanker hull, under a Maritime Commission contract, at Cargill, Inc., Savage, Minnesota. She was launched on 12 May 1945 and commissioned Pinnebog (AOG-58), 20 October 1945.

1 Service as a U.S. Navy gasoline tanker
2 Loaned to the U.S. Air Force
3 Deactivation
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Service as a U.S. Navy gasoline tanker

After serving with the U.S. Navy for 3 1⁄2 years as a gasoline tanker, Pinnebog was placed out of commission in reserve 2 May 1949 in the Texas Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet.

Reactivated, she was assigned to MSTS in March 1952 and operated under contract with a civilian crew until July 1954, when she was again placed in reserve, berthed in Florida. She was transferred to the Maritime Administration 20 April 1956 and to MSTS 23 April 1956.

[edit] Loaned to the U.S. Air Force

She was then operated by an MSTS civil service crew until September 1957, when she was loaned to the U.S. Air Force.

[edit] Deactivation

Pinnebog was struck from the Naval Register (date unknown) and custody was transferred to the Maritime Commission, 15 December 1987. Her final Disposition is unknown.