USS Conecuh (AOR-110)
Conecuh underway, October 1946 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Nazi Germany | |
| Name | Dithmarschen |
| Builder | Schichau-Werke, Danzig |
| Laid down | 6 June 1936 |
| Launched | 12 June 1937 |
| Commissioned | 20 July 1939 |
| Fate | Captured, May 1945 |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Conecuh |
| Namesake | Conecuh River in Alabama |
| Acquired | 15 January 1946 |
| In service | 2 May 1946, as USS Dithmarschen (IX-301) |
| Out of service | 24 October 1946 |
| Renamed | USS Conecuh, 1 October 1946 |
| Reclassified | AO-110 (Fleet Oiler), 1 October 1946 |
| Commissioned | 16 February 1953 |
| Decommissioned | 3 April 1956 |
| Reclassified | AOR-110 (Replenishment Oiler), 4 September 1952 |
| Stricken | 1 June 1960 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 3 April 1956 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Replenishment oiler |
| Displacement | 8,820 long tons (8,962 t) |
| Length | 584 ft (178 m) |
| Beam | 72 ft (22 m) |
| Draft | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion | four MAN nine-cylinder Diesel, two shafts, 22,000 shaft horsepower (16,000 kW) |
| Speed | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
| Range | 12500 nm (23200 km) at 15 kn |
| Complement | 284 |
| Armament | 3 x 150 mm, 2 x 37 mm, 4 x 20 mm; 8 × 40 mm guns (U.S. Navy) |
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USS Conecuh (AOR-110) was a fleet replenishment tanker, originally built by F. Schichau, Danzig, in 1938 as a combination oiler and supply vessel or "Troßschiff" for the Kriegsmarine and christened as Dithmarschen. Taken over by British authorities at Bremerhaven when World War II ended, Dithmarschen was allocated to the United States Navy on 15 January 1946 by the Inter-Allied Reparations Commission.