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Philadelphia is where USS KAWISHIWI AO-146 Started her service Her Sea trials were

Philadelphia is where USS KAWISHIWI AO-146 Started her service Her Sea trials were Straight off the Delaware-New Jersey Coast. In November 1955 She set sail for the West Coast Stopping briefly in Norfolk. Then on to the PANAMA CANAL.

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Philadelphia is where USS KAWISHIWI AO-146 Started her service Her Sea trials were

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  1. Philadelphia is where USS KAWISHIWI AO-146 Started her service Her Sea trials were Straight off the Delaware-New Jersey Coast. In November 1955 She set sail for the West Coast Stopping briefly in Norfolk. Then on to the PANAMA CANAL

  2. USS KAWISHIWI AO-146 was built in the New York Ship Building Yards in Camden New Jersey She was towed down the Delaware and moored at the first pier past the Camden Ferry dock

  3. USS KAWISHIWI AO-146 was down street marked with it’s nameThis photo was taken in1955, remember walking past those two hospital ships upon entering the gate?

  4. Captain Joseph P. Swain Assumed Command ofU.S.S. KAWISHIWI (AO-146)She was the fourth of the Neosho class Fleet Oilers.She  is 655 feet  in length with a beam of  86 feet. She  has  equipment  and devices specifically designed for  the  rapid  transfer of petroleum products and cargo to the forces afloat operating at high speed or  in bad weather .She is equipped to carry a cargo of 130,600 barrels of fuel oil, 48,700 barrels of aviation fuel and 8,000 barrels of diesel oil.

  5. Across the river is New Jersey, where workers parked their cars and rode the ferry right to the Naval Ship Yard This tanker burdened with oil, was the first seen by most on Kawishiwian’s, . In August, Kawishiwi was almost sitting on the pier from high water caused from Hurricanes Connie and Diane, Everything you could imagine was floating down the river,even chicken coops.

  6. Kawishiwi’sFirst long voyage.Via the Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Pacific OceanEnd Part 1 of 610 SLIDES WERE LEFT OUT

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