USS Clifton (IX-184)
{{Short description|United States Navy storage tanker}}
{{Other ships|USS Clifton}}
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USS Clifton (IX-184) was a storage tanker that served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946 as an unclassified miscellaneous vessel.
Service history
The ship was built in 1919 at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company's Alameda Works, as SS Dilworth,{{Cite DANFS |title=USS Clifton (III) |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c10/clifton-iii.htm |accessdate=17 December 2012 }} under United States Shipping Board contract No. 1465, as an EFC Design 1047 tank ship.{{cite web | url=http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/1major/inactive/bethsanfrancisco.htm | title=Bethlehem Steel Company, San Francisco CA | work=shipbuildinghistory.com | date=27 November 2011 | accessdate=17 December 2012 | author=Colton, Tim | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019225003/http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/1major/inactive/bethsanfrancisco.htm | archivedate=19 October 2012 | df= }}
In October 1943 the Vice Chief of Naval Operations requested that the War Shipping Administration's Auxiliary Vessels Board acquire
35 elderly tankers for use as mobile floating storage ships at advanced bases in the Pacific area. He later directed that these vessels be armed, and equipped with the necessary fittings for use in transferring fuel oil to other vessels.{{cite web | url=http://www.shipscribe.com/usnaux/IX2/IX132.html| title=IX-132 class tankers | work=U. S. Navy Auxiliary Vessels 1917–1945 | date=2010 | accessdate=17 December 2012 | author=Roberts, Stephen S.}}
In August 1944 four of these tankers were assigned to Service Force, Seventh Fleet, in the Southwest Pacific Area. Dilworth and three other ships were sent to Brisbane, Australia, to fulfill this requirement. The vessels were not expected to meet Navy standards, but had to be in good enough condition to travel to the forward area and on arrival be capable of receiving and discharging fuel to other vessels as required.
Dilworth was transferred to the Navy from the War Shipping Administration at Brisbane on 31 May 1945, and commissioned on 2 June as Clifton. She sailed from Brisbane on 13 June, and served as station tanker at Leyte (12 July-2 August), Manila (5–29 August), and Kanoya, Japan (8 September – 2 November). She returned to the United States via Pearl Harbor and San Pedro, California, and arrived at Mobile, Alabama, on 14 January 1946. She was decommissioned there on 21 February and returned to the custody of the War Shipping Administration the same day. She was sold in January 1947, and scrapped by September.
References
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- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c10/clifton-iii.htm}}
External links
- {{Navsource|09/46/46184|USS Clifton}}
- [http://www.shipscribe.com/mckellar/pix/1047.html EFC Design 1047: Illustrations]
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Category:Ships built in Alameda, California