She was recommissioned 5 June 1934 and cleared Bremerton 21 June for her base at San Pedro. Nach einer 14-monatigen Bauzeit lief das Schiff vom Stapel und wurde im September 1987 offiziell in Dienst gestellt. Von den Schlachten, die danach folgten, zeugen heute noch die Wracks der USS Aaron Ward, der USS Kanawha und der HMNZS Moa. 13) was the first purpose-built oiler of the US Navy. Bock ordered the ship abandoned to minimize danger to his crew from burning oil on the surface. USS Kanawha was the first purpose-built fleet replenishment oiler built for the US Navy, and after her 1915 commissioning took an active role in the First World War as a member of the US Atlantic Fleet. People of the American Civil War by state, Articles incorporating text from the Naval Vessel Register, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States, United States Navy West Virginia-related ships, http://web.archive.org/web/20101122045432/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/11/19/ns-fredericton-accident.html, NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive T-AO-196 Kanawha, http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/GSBO/index.html, List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy, https://military.wikia.org/wiki/USNS_Kanawha_(T-AO-196)?oldid=4229397, Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Chester, Pennsylvania, 178,000 to 180,000 barrels (28,300 to 28,600 m, 103 (18 civilian officers, 1 U.S. Navy officer, 64 merchant seamen, 20 U.S. Navy enlisted personnel). She would go on to serve for almost 30 years. USS Kanawha was a Unadilla-class gunboat built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She caught schooner R. C. Files carrying cotton out of Mobile on 21 April and took British sloop Annie on the 29th between Ship Island and Mobile headed for Cuba. On 7 April a group of enemy Vals slipped through fighter defenses and zeroed in on Kanawha as she awaited an escort in Tulagi harbor. After rescue operations were underway, volunteers returned on board and extinguished fires amidst exploding ammunition. Colloquium on Contemporary History 1989-1998, DANFS - Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Needs and Opportunities in the Modern History of the U.S. Navy, Permitting Policy and Resource Management, The Catastrophic Fire On Board USS Forrestal, The Sullivan Brothers and the Assignment of Family Members, The African American Experience in the U.S. Navy, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. Navy, Contributions of American Indians to the U.S. Navy, Naval Service of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Personnel, The World Cruise of the Great White Fleet, Navy Underwater Archaeology Return Program, Research Permits for Sunken & Terrestrial Military Craft, Scanning, Copyright & Citation Information, Obtain Duplications of Records and Photos. Kanawha cleared San Diego 9 June 1915 and arrived Newport, Rhode Island, for service with the Atlantic Fleet. However, she slid off into deep water and sank before daybreak 8 April. At 1502, shortly after clearing the harbor, the slow and vulnerable oiler came under bomb attack. During the following year the oiler made seven trips to Port Arthur, Texas, for fuel oil and gasoline. Caption: Sunk off Guadalcanal, 7 April 1943. On April 7, 1943, the fleet oiler USS Kanawha AO-1 sustained fire from enemy aircraft in a battle between Allied and Japanese forces over control of the Solomon Islands. Bock ordered the ship abandoned to minimize danger to his crew from burning oil on the surface. For the next two months she serviced ships engaged in the struggle in the Solomon Islands. The oiler departed Pago Pago 12 October and put into San Francisco 29 October for repairs and overhaul. Kanawha departed San Pedro 21 March 1942 with a convoy loaded with supplies for Hawaii. This class was specially built for the MSC.