Navy Super Tankers

About the Book

The history of 14 different oilers is presented in this book. These ships are displayed in construction plan, photos of compartments in operation, crews doing their duty.

History of each ship covers birth to where they are moored today. The 6 newer Neosho Class Fleet Oilers were streamlined where the stack resembled a cruise ship. Catwalks did not exist, the cargo deck extended from port to starboard as one big open area for replenishment to be carried out on. The 8 older T3 type tankers were Jumboized (cut apart and lengthened) to accommodate the Navy's needs without building new ships.

Oilers usually go out to sea annually for a few months and visit several world ports. This is displayed in maps of the world's oceans, maps of 93 ports, photos taken of those ports by the crew or from the port's local web sites.

Real stories and histories about how things that have happened, either good or bad, one to four pages in length, are included.

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About the Author

Vern retired from Boeing in the year 2000, and RCDD Telephone Engineer. Upon completing his tour with the Navy in 1955, Vern was hired to help rebuild old, crank type telephone plant and communication engineering became his career. In 45 years he has designed and served as resident engineer for the construction of many hundreds of miles of telephone line, aerial, buried, underground, station wiring and data room design. This was accomplished first in Michigan, continuing through 13 other states the last being the state of Washington. His specialty became telephone plant record keeping where he published a 44 page booklet "Telephone Plant Records". His work was all in the Independent Telephone Industry. Currently he hosts the web site "navy.memorieshop.com" for Navy Tankers and supports the USS Kawishiwi AO-146 Reunion Association as a Plank Owner a 1953-1955 SN.