USS Big Horn (AO 45)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Oiler
Class	[No specific class]
Pennant	AO 45
Built by	Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	30 Nov 1935
Launched	2 May 1936
Commissioned	16 Apr 1942
End service	6 May 1946
History	Displacement: 4150 BRT Length: 426 feet Complement: 239 Armament: 2 3" AA guns (2x1) Speed: 12.5 kts Power: 3300 HP Engines: direct drive turbines Acquired by the USN on 31 March 1942 and modified as a Q-ship Commissioned as USS Big Horn (AO-45) on 16 April 1942 Decommissioned on 17 January 1944 and transferred to the Coast Guard and recommissioned as weather ship USCGC Big Horn (WAO-124) Decommissioned by the Coast Guard and returned to the Navy for recommissioning as miscellaneous unclassified Big Horn (IX-207) on 1 February 1945 Decommissioned on 6 May 1946 Sold into merchantile service in 1948 Scrapped in 1960

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Joseph Aloysius Gainard, USN	16 Apr 1942	24 Jun 1943 (1)
2	Louis Calott Farley, USN	24 Jun 1943	17 Jan 1944

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