USS Pasig (AO-89)

History
United States
Name	USS Pasig
Namesake	Pasig River in the Philippines
Builder	Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia
Laid down	1917
Launched	24 November 1917
Acquired	22 January 1943
Commissioned	22 January 1943
Decommissioned	25 September 1943
Stricken	11 October 1943
Fate	Returned to owner Scrapped, 1947
General characteristics
Type	Fleet replenishment oiler
Displacement	7,165 long tons (7,280 t) light
Length	516 ft 6 in (157.43 m)
Beam	68 ft (21 m)
Draft	30 ft 10 in (9.40 m)
Propulsion	Triple expansion reciprocating engine 3 single ended Scotch boilers Single shaft 2,400 shp (1,790 kW)
Speed	10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph)
Armament	1 × 4 in (100 mm) gun

USS Pasig (AO-89) was a fleet replenishment oiler in the service of the United States Navy. The lone ship in her class, she was the first of only two U.S. Naval vessels to be named for the Pasig River which flows through Manila on the Philippine Island of Luzon.

Originally built in 1917 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia, she served the Atlantic Refining Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as SS J. C. Donnell. Acquired by the US Navy through the War Shipping Administration on 22 January 1943, and commissioned the same day, as USS Pasig (AO–89).

Pasig was intended for use as a storage tank in the South Pacific near New Caledonia, but was replaced by concrete barges. She decommissioned and was delivered to WSA on 25 September 1943, and was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 11 October 1943.

Returned to her owner, Pasig reverted to her original name and served as SS J.C. Donnell until scrapped in 1947.

 This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

• "Pasig". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Retrieved 13 March 2007.
• "AO-89 Pasig". Service Ship Photo Archive. Retrieved 14 March 2007.

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