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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Escatawpa (AOG-27), 1944-1946

USS Escatawpa, an 845-ton Mettawee class gasoline tanker, was built at Bayonne, New Jersey. Commissioned in mid-August 1944, she spent the rest of World War II in the central Pacific. In mid-September 1945, shortly after Japan's surrender, she went ashore during a western Pacific typhoon. Refloated some weeks later, Escatawpa was sent to the U.S. West Coast. She was decommissioned in March 1946 and transferred to the U.S. Maritime Commission, who laid her up in Suisun Bay, California. In April 1947 the tanker was sold to a Brazilian shipping firm.

This page features the only view we have concerning USS Escatawpa (AOG-27).

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Photo #: NH 99534 USS Escatawpa (AOG-27) Underway in the vicinity of Hampton Roads, Virginia, 3 October 1944. Photographed from an aircraft based as Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia. Escatawpa's camouflage is Measure 32, Design 8AO. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 103KB; 740 x 620 pixels

In addition to the image presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other view of USS Escatawpa (AOG-27). The following list features this image:

The image listed below is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Photo #: 80-G-280755 USS Escatawpa (AOG-27) underway in the vicinity of Hampton Roads, Virginia, 3 October 1944. Photographed from an aircraft based at Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia. Starboard bow aerial view, taken from an altitude of about 250 feet. The ship is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 8AO. Reproductions of this images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center. The image listed in this box is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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