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    USS Patoka (AO–9/AV–6/AG–125) was a replenishment oiler made famous as a tender for the airships Shenandoah (ZR-1), Los Angeles (ZR-3) and Akron (ZRS-4)...
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  • County Patoka Lake, a reservoir in Indiana Patoka Township (disambiguation) Patoka River, in Indiana USS Patoka (AO-9), a US Navy ship USCGC Patoka (WLR-75408)...
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    Angeles in Panama 1929 USS Los Angeles in flight USS Los Angeles, USS Patoka and USS Lexington off Panama City, Panama, about 1931 USS Los Angeles flies past...
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    USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S. Navy, the lead ship of her class, which operated between September 1931 and April 1933...
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    the 21-year-old oil tanker Patoka (AO-9) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington. Sprague commanded Patoka until June 1940, when he was...
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    to take any part in operations of this kind. In July 1924, the oiler USS Patoka put in at Norfolk Naval Shipyard for extensive modifications to become...
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  • made in mooring airships to a mast mounted on the ship USS Patoka. Over time the airships USS Shenandoah, Los Angeles, and Akron all moored to the mast...
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    days of early 1942). Patoka (AO-9), later AV-6 and AG-125. Patoka served as tender for the airships USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) and USS Shenandoah (ZR-1). Sapelo (AO-11)...
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    USS Trinity (AO-13) was a Patoka-class replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. Trinity was laid down on 10 November 1919 at Newport News, Virginia...
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    USS APc-1 USS APc-2 USS APc-3 USS APc-4 USS APc-5 USS APc-6 USS APc-7 USS APc-8 USS APc-9 USS APc-10 USS APc-11 USS APc-12 USS APc-13 USS APc-14 USS APc-15...
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    The Patoka-class oilers were a series of eight fleet replenishment oilers built for the United States Navy after World War I. All but one of the vessels...
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    twin airborne aircraft carrier U.S. Navy helium-filled rigids, the USS Akron and USS Macon respectively, and the 1937 burning of the German hydrogen-filled...
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    Further experimental flights were undertaken, mooring to the airship tender Patoka (AO-9) during long-range flights. In July 1928 Rosendahl traveled to Britain...
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    at the time the tallest ship in the U.S. Navy, USS Patoka, passage under the bridge (however, Patoka never did). However, the height of the bridge did...
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  • August 8 – The U.S. Navy dirigible USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) docks with the airship tender USS Patoka (AO-9) while the Patoka is underway off Newport, Rhode Island...
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    (1919) USS Patapsco (1799, 1806, 1812, 1862, AT-10, AOG-1) USS Patchogue (ID-1227/YFB-1227, PC-586) USS Pathfinder (AGS-1/OSS-30, T-AGS-60) USS Patoka (AO-9/AV-6/AG-125)...
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    USS Tippecanoe (AO-21) was a Patoka Replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. Tippecanoe was laid down on 1 October 1919 at Newport News, Virginia...
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    Two battleships, USS New York (BB-34) and USS Oklahoma (BB-37) simulated aircraft carriers modeled after the under-construction USS Langley (CV-1). A...
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    along with a pressure of 979 mbar (hPa; 28.91 inHg), measured by the USS Patoka. Gale-force winds extended to at least New Jersey, where winds of 70 mph...
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  • and then Wyandotte in 1869, and decommissioned in 1898. USS Tippecanoe (AO-21), was a Patoka-class fleet replenishment oiler launched in 1920, commissioned...
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    USS Ramapo (AO-12), was a Patoka-class replenishment oiler. It was built under U.S. Shipping Board contract, was laid down on 16 January 1919 by the Newport...
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  • history equipped to operate airships, balloons, and seaplanes. She and USS Patoka (AO-9) are the only ships ever fitted with an airship mooring mast. No...
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    proceeded back to Dutch Harbor with USS Swallow in tow. Argonne remained at Dutch Harbor from 1 to 18 May, contacting USS Patoka at that port for fuel oil and...
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  • Hoover's retreat Rapidan River Rapidan Wildlife Management Area USS Rapidan (1919–1946), a Patoka-class replenishment oiler Rapydan, a local anesthetic combination...
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    reapied the USS Sumter (APA-52) a Sumter-class attack transport on 15 February 1945 for normal repairs. The USS Trinity (AO-13) a Patoka replenishment...
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    Aircraft Tenders for naval kite balloon and rigid airship support. USS Wright (AZ-1) USS Patoka (AO-9) operated as a lighter-than-air aircraft tender from 1924...
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  • combat. Most of his service was aboard the USS Patoka, a fleet oiler. In July 1945, Sawyer was transferred to USS Swan, a minesweeper, on which he served...
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    USS Arcturus (AK-12) USS Alchiba (AK-23) USS Algorab (AK-25) USS Betelgeuse (AK-28) Fleet Oilers: USS Patoka (AO-9) USS Sapelo (AO-11) USS Kaweah (AO-15) USS Laramie (AO-16)...
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    Puget Sound Navy Yard in Washington to help outfit and recommission the USS Patoka (AO-9) and return her to the Norfolk Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia, for...
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    Fleetco, a Patoka Replenishment oiler built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, for the United States Shipping Board...
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