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AO-2 / AG-124 Maumee

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - World War I Victory Medal (with Transport clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Maumee Class Fleet Oiler:
  • Laid down, 23 July 1914, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Launched, 17 April 1915
  • Commissioned USS Maumee, Fuel Ship No. 14, 20 October 1916
  • Designated (AO-2), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 9 June 1922 at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Philadelphia
  • Recommissioned, 2 June 1942
  • Redesignated Miscellaneous Auxiliary (AG-124), 15 July 1945
  • Decommissioned, 5 November 1946 at Tsingtao, China and simultaneously Transferred under the Lend Lease Program to Nationalist China, renamed Omei (AO-509)
  • Permanently transferred to Nationalist China, 7 February 1948
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 12 March 1948
  • Final Disposition, scrapped August 1967 at Kaoshiung, Taiwan
    Specifications:
    Displacement 5,723 t.(lt) 14,800 t.(fl)
    Length 475' 1"
    Beam 56' 2"
    Draft 26' 8"
    Speed 14.3 kts.
    Complement 475
    Armament four 4" gun mounts
    Propulsion diesel engines
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    Maumee 70k Maumee ( Fuel Ship No. 14) at anchor shortly after completion, 25 February 1916.
    US Navy photo # NR&L(M) 13287    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Maumee 76k Maumee (AO-2) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo # NR&L(M) 733175    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Maumee 29k ex-Maumee (AO-2) in Taiwanese service as Omei (AO-509) Republic of China Navy web site
    Maumee 53k ex-Maumee (AO-2) in Taiwanese service as Omei (AO-509) Republic of China Navy web site
    View the Maumee (AO-2)
    DANFS entry located on the Hyperwar US Navy in WWII web site.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
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