USS Halawa
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Blue Sunoco |
| Owner | Sun Oil Company |
| Builder | Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Launched | 6 April 1929 |
| Fate | Acquired by the US Navy, 1942 |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Halawa |
| Namesake | Halawa on Molokai in Hawaii |
| Acquired | 1942 |
| Commissioned | 10 August 1942 |
| Decommissioned | 25 October 1945 |
| Homeport | Pearl Harbor |
| Fate | Sold, 5 July 1948, scrapped 1956 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gasoline tanker |
| Displacement | 3,650 long tons (3,709 t) full load |
| Length | 255 ft (78 m) |
| Beam | 43 ft (13 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
| Speed | 9 knots (10 mph; 17 km/h) |
| Complement | 63 |
| Armament | 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun |
USS Halawa (AOG-12) was a gasoline tanker acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet, and to remote Navy stations.
Halawa was built as Blue Sunoco in 1929 by Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania, and operated as a tanker for the Sun Oil Co. until acquired by the Navy through the Maritime Commission in 1942. She was renamed Halawa and commissioned 10 April 1942, at Pearl Harbor.