USS Carondelet (IX-136)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Carondelet.

Career
Name:	USS Carondelet
Builder:	Societa Escercizio Bacini, Riva Trigossa, Italy
Launched:	1921
Acquired:	24 February 1944
Commissioned:	4 April 1944
Decommissioned:	25 February 1946
Struck:	25 February 1946
Fate:	Returned to the War Shipping Administration, 25 February 1946
General characteristics
Type:	Mobile Floating Storage Tanker
Displacement:	4,500 long tons (4,572 t)
Length:	343 ft (105 m)
Beam:	59 ft 4 in (18.08 m)
Draft:	25 ft 10 in (7.87 m)
Speed:	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	152
Armament:	• 1 × 5 in (130 mm) gun • 8 × 20 mm guns

USS Carondelet (IX-136) was a tanker and served in the United States Navy during World War II.

The second Carondelet was built in 1921 by Societa Esercizio Bacini, Riva Trigossa, Italy, as Brennero (later renamed Gold Heels); transferred from the War Shipping Administration on 24 February 1944; and commissioned on 4 April 1944, Lieutenant W. W. Morphew, USNR, in command.

Service history

Carondelet spent her entire wartime service as a station tanker in the Southwest Pacific and Philippines. Except for occasional voyages to refill her tanks, she lay at Milne Bay, New Guinea, until 26 November 1944; at Leyte from December 1944 to 25 May 1945; and at Subic Bay, Luzon, from 28 May to 12 September 1945. Pouring her precious fuel into the bunkers of the ships which pressed the war home to the Japanese, she rendered essential service. She returned to Mobile, Alabama, on 22 January 1946, and was decommissioned and returned to the War Shipping Administration on 25 February 1946.

References

• This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

External links

• Photo gallery of USS Carondelet at NavSource Naval History