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USS Neosho (AO-23) was a Cimarron-class fleet oiler serving with the United States Navy, the second ship to be named for the Neosho River in Kansas and Oklahoma. After surviving the attack on Pearl Harbor , Neosho operated in the South Pacific.
USS Neosho (AO-143) was the lead ship of her class of fleet oilers of the United States Navy, in service from 1954 to the early 1990s. The fourth Neosho was laid down 15 August 1952 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation 's Fore River Shipyard at Quincy, Massachusetts , and named Neosho on 29 September 1953.
In the mid-1970s, the Military Sealift Command took over the vessels, and they were redesignated from USS to USNS. The Neosho and Mispillion-class oilers were replaced by the Henry J. Kaiser class, with its lead ship, USS Henry J. Kaiser, entering service in 1986. [1] [2]
USS Neosho may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Neosho (1863), a single-turreted, wooden-hulled, river monitor (1863–1873) USS Neosho (AO-23), Cimarron-class oiler (1939–1942), sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea; USS Neosho (AO-48), Kennebec-class oiler, launched 1942, sold and renamed SS Catawba
USS Neosho (AO–48) was a Kennebec-class type T2 fleet oiler of the United States Navy. The ship was laid down on 8 July 1941, as SS Catawba, by the Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard Inc., Sparrows Point, Maryland. The purchase came under Maritime Commission contract number 145 for the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, later renamed Mobil Oil.
The 11,600/38,000-ton Neosho-class oilers were the first oilers built for the US Navy after World War II, the first built expressly as naval oilers rather than conversions of civilian tanker designs, and the first designed from the outset to support jet operations. Six of these oilers were completed during 1954 and 55.
USS Neosho is left burning and slowly sinking at the completion of the Japanese dive bombing attack. At 09:15, Takahashi's strike force reached its target area, sighted Neosho and Sims, and searched in vain for the U.S. carriers for a couple of hours.
USS Neosho, the lead ship of her class, was an ironclad river monitor laid down for the Union Navy in the summer of 1862 during the American Civil War.After completion in mid-1863, the ship spent time patrolling the Mississippi River against Confederate raids and ambushes as part of Rear Admiral David Porter's Mississippi Squadron.