USNS Yukon (T-AO-152), later T-AO-152T, was a United States Navy

United States Navy

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 Maumee-class

Maumee class oiler

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 oiler

Replenishment Oiler

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, later transport oiler, in non-commissioned service with the Military Sea Transportation Service, later Military Sealift Command

Military Sealift Command

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, from 1957 to 1985.

Yukon, second U.S. Navy ship to bear the name, was laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula

Pascagoula, Mississippi

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, Mississippi

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, on 16 May 1955 and launched on 16 March 1956, sponsored by Mrs. John P. Womble, Jr.. She entered non-commissioned U.S. Navy service under the control of the Military Sea Transport Service, later the Military Sealift Command

Military Sealift Command

The Military Sealift Command is a United States Navy organization that controls most of the replenishment and military transport ships of the Navy. It first came into existence on 9 July 1949 when the Military Sea Transportation Service became solely responsible for the Department of Defense's...

, with a primarily civilian crew in May 1957.

Yukon carried petroleum products from United States Gulf Coast port

Port

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s and such oil

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-producing areas as Venezuela

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 and the Persian Gulf

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 to American

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 military bases throughout the world, taking her into every ocean

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 and many sea

Sea

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s. She eventually was reclassified as a "transport oiler", resulting her redesignation from "T-AO-152" (as an oiler) to "T-AO-152T" (as a transport oiler).

Yukon was placed out of service and laid up as part of the Navy's Ready Reserve Force (RRF) on 20 October 1985. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register

Naval Vessel Register

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 on 13 April 1992 and transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet

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. She was sold for scrapping on 18 September 1995 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service

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(DRMS).