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History
USS Escatawpa (AOG-27) Underway in the vicinity of Hampton Roads, Virginia, 3 October 1944.
United States
Name	USS Escatawpa
Namesake	Escatawpa River in Alabama
Ordered	as T1-M-A2 tanker hull MC hull 1524
Laid down	date unknown
Launched	3 June 1944
Commissioned	14 August 1944
Decommissioned	20 March 1946
Stricken	date unknown
Fate	Sunk in 1970
General characteristics
Tonnage	1,228 long tons deadweight (DWT)
Displacement	846 tons(lt) 2,270 tons(fl)
Length	220 ft 6 in
Beam	37 ft
Draught	17 ft
Propulsion	Diesel direct drive, single screw, 720 hp
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement	62
Armament	one single 3 in (76 mm) dual purpose gun mount, two 40 mm guns, three single 20 mm gun mounts

USS Escatawpa (AOG-27) was a Mettawee-class gasoline tanker in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. In 1947, she was sold to Standard Oil tanker where she served as M/T Esso Porto Alegre until she sank in 1970.

History

Escatawpa was launched by the East Coast Shipyard, Inc., Bayonne, New Jersey, on 3 June 1944 and commissioned on 18 August 1944.

She was assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, operating thereafter in fueling ships and craft on an inter-island circuit in the central Pacific Ocean. A typhoon drove her aground at Kagoshima Kaiwan on 17 September 1945. She was refloated on 10 October and returned to San Francisco, California, where she was placed out of commission on 20 March 1946 and subsequently transferred to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet.

She was sold for commercial service in April 1947 to Standard Oil of Brazil where she served as M/T Esso Porto Alegre until she sank in 1970.

Escatawpa’s crew was eligible for the following medals:

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

v t e Mettawee-class gasoline tankers
Mettawee Pasquotank Sakatonchee Seekonk Sequatchie Wautauga Ammonusuc Sheepscot Calamus Chiwaukum Escatawpa Gualala Hiwassee Kalamazoo Kanawha Narraguagas Ochlockonee Oconee Ogeechee Ontonagon Yahara Ponchatoula Quastinet Sacandaga Tetonkaha Towaliga Tularosa Wakulla Yacona Waupaca Manokin Sakonnet Conemaugh Klaskanine
Preceded by: USS Guyandot Followed by: Klickitat class
List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy

v t e Type T1-M-A2 tankers
Ammonusuc Androscoggin Calamus Chiwaukum Conemaugh Conroe Escatawpa Gualala Hiwassee Kalamazoo Kanawha Klaskanine Narraguagas Ochlockonee Oconee Ogeechee Old Ocean Ontonagon Ponchatoula Quastinet Rodessa Royston Sacandaga Sakatonchee Seekonk Tetonkaha Towaliga Tularosa Wakulla Waupaca Yacona Yahara