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USS ''Waccamaw'' (AO-109) was a Cimarron-class replenishment oiler in the United States Navy. She was named after Waccamaw River. The original capacity was .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= USNS Waccamaw (T-AOT-109) )〕 ''Waccamaw'' was laid down on 28 April 1945 by the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania; launched on 30 March 1946; sponsored by Miss Irene F. Long; and commissioned on 25 June 1946, Capt. Guy W. Stringer in command. == Atlantic Fleet operations == After completing shakedown and training at Norfolk, Virginia, and Guantanamo Bay, ''Waccamaw'' spent her first two years engaged in transporting oil from the Persian Gulf to the United States. In September 1948, she was assigned to duty with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean and, in the spring of 1949, was transferred to the 2nd Fleet for exercises in the Caribbean. A second tour of the Mediterranean followed in the early part of 1950 and a third in 1951, the latter extending to nine months.〔 After a shipyard overhaul at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1952, ''Waccamaw'' participated in the development of the Thompson-Arwood method of fueling destroyers at sea in heavy weather. In 1953, the ship made her first midshipman cruise, which included a visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. During the summer of 1954, ''Waccamaw'' was again in the Mediterranean for her fourth tour with the 6th Fleet. This was followed by logistic services in the western Atlantic and Caribbean. On a second midshipman cruise in 1955, she visited Copenhagen, Denmark and Edinburgh, Scotland. In the fall of 1955, the ship entered the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for overhaul and proceeded to the Caribbean for training the following spring. A third midshipman cruise was made in June and July 1956, the visit this time being to Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the end of July, the ship departed for a fifth assignment to the 6th Fleet. This tour was extended until January 1957 because of the Suez crisis. During this period, ''Waccamaw'' provided logistic support to the ships engaged in the evacuation of Haifa, Israel; and Alexandria, Egypt.〔 After returning from the Mediterranean, ''Waccamaw'' operated in the Caribbean for two months, participated in the International Naval Review at Norfolk, Virginia, on 12 and 13 June 1957, and then departed on her fourth midshipman cruise which took her to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Aruba, Dutch West Indies.〔 During September and October 1957, ''Waccamaw'', as a member of the underway replenishment group, supported the international fleet participating in the NATO fall exercises. These exercises were designed to test the ability of the navies of the Atlantic community to cooperate in mutual defense. In the course of these operations, ''Waccamaw'' played a novel role in the rapidly developing character of the Fleet; she was the last oiler to fuel , the last of the battleships, and the first to fuel the new super carriers, and .〔〔(Navy Super Tankers )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Waccamaw (AO-109)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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