History
United States
Name	USS Carondelet
Builder	Società Escercizio Bacini, Riva Trigossa, Italy
Launched	1921
Acquired	24 February 1944
Commissioned	4 April 1944
Decommissioned	25 February 1946
Stricken	25 February 1946
Fate	Returned to the War Shipping Administration, 25 February 1946, stricken 1954
General characteristics
Type	Mobile Floating Storage Tanker
Displacement	4,500 long tons (4,572 t)
Length	343 ft (105 m)
Beam	59 ft 4 in (18.08 m)
Draft	25 ft 10 in (7.87 m)
Speed	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	152
Armament	1 × 5-inch 38 caliber dual purpose gun 8 × 20 mm guns

USS Carondelet (IX-136) was a tanker and served in the United States Navy during World War II.

The second Carondelet was built in 1921 by Società Esercizio Bacini, Riva Trigossa, Italy, as Brennero (later renamed Gold Heels); transferred from the War Shipping Administration on 24 February 1944; and commissioned on 4 April 1944.

Service history

Carondelet spent her entire wartime service as a station tanker in the Southwest Pacific and Philippines. The ship was occasionally refueled by larger tankers that pulled up to her side. She lay at Milne Bay, New Guinea, until 26 November 1944; at Leyte from December 1944 to 25 May 1945; and at Subic Bay, Luzon, from 28 May to 12 September 1945. Pouring her precious fuel into the bunkers of the ships which pressed the war home to the Japanese, she rendered essential service. She returned to Mobile, Alabama, on 22 January 1946, and was decommissioned and returned to the War Shipping Administration on 25 February 1946.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

External links

• Photo gallery of USS Carondelet at NavSource Naval History