Allied Warships

Oilers

US Navy

All Oiler classes (in service with the US Navy).

ClassCommissioned
 Kanawha (6)1915 - 1921
 Patoka (8)1919 - 1940
 Kaweah (3)1921 - 1921
 Cimarron (8)1939 - 1941
 Suamico (11)1942 - 1943
 Kennebec (6)1942 - 1942
 Chiwawa (5)1942 - 1943
 Mattaponi (5)1942 - 1942
 no class name (4)1942 - 1943
 Chicopee (2)1942 - 1942
 Ashtabula (23)1943 - 1946
 Escambia (14)1943 - 1945

12 ship classes.


Please note that we list the classes by navies that initiated/owned the class. Often vessels of certain classes were then built for other nations (or lent), those ships are not visible here but only through the navies pages or by looking into each class.

War losses: Oilers


 DateVesselClass

1942

US Navy23 Jan 1942USS Neches (i) (AO 5)Kanawha 
US Navy1 Mar 1942USS Pecos (i) (AO 6)Kanawha 
US Navy11 May 1942USS Neosho (i) (AO 23)Cimarron 

1943

US Navy8 Apr 1943USS Kanawha (AO 1)Kanawha 

1944

US Navy20 Nov 1944USS Mississinewa (AO 59)Ashtabula 

5 Oilers lost. See all Allied Warship losses.

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