An oiler is a ship, also called a tanker, that can carry a liquid cargo of petroleum,
or a naval support vessel that carries fuel to other naval ships steaming at sea,
and can transfer the fuel during underway replentishment at sea.
RAS improved fleet operations reliability, availabiltiy and serviceability. Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, sometimes with multiple decks. ... A tanker is a ship designed to transport liquids in bulk. ... A rare occurrence of a 5-country multinational fleet, during Operation Enduring Freedom in the Oman Sea. ... RAS is an acronym that could mean one of the following: Redundant Acronym Syndrome Remote Access Service Request-A-Song. ...

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In the United States Navy, oilers carry the hull classification symbols AO.
They may also carry small quantities of ammunition and cargo.

The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... The United States Navy uses hull classification symbols (sometimes called hull codes) to identify the types of its ships. ... Boxes of ammunition clog a warehouse in Baghdad Ammunition is a generic military term meaning (the assembly of) a projectile and its propellant. ... Cargo is a term used to denotes goods or produce being transported generally for commercial gain, usually on a ship, plane, train or lorry. ...

Gret Steel & Black Oil

Lieutenant Chester Nimitz “... took off his coat and rolled up his sleeves in every important Diesel factory in the country. He talked, ate, slept Diesels until even his wife, so she says, ‘… learned the lingo of wrist pins and bushings.’ When he returned, he was the Navy’s last word on the subject.” A Lieutenant is a military, paramilitary or police officer. ... Chester Nimitz Chester William Nimitz (February 24, 1885 – February 20, 1966) was the Commander in Chief of Pacific Forces for the United States and Allied forces during World War II. He was the nations leading authority on submarines, as well as Chief of the Navys Bureau of Navigation...

On that return, he was assigned as the Executive Officer and Chief Engineer on the Navy’s first diesel-powered surface ship, the oiler USS Maumee (AO-2), then under completion at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Maumee was a good-sized ship for her time, 14,500 tons, and her engines were very large, developing 2,500 horsepower each. Once again, Nimitz was handed an assignment that he did NOT want, thwarted in his attempt to get duty on battleships, and now marked as a specialist in a propulsion technology of limited utility when most promotions went to gunners.-1... The second USS Maumee (AO-2) was laid down as Fuel Ship No. ... The New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY), also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard , the New York Navy Yard and United States Navy Yard, New York, is located 1. ...

Then still in their infancy, diesel engines were suffering many developmental problems, and it was no secret in the manufacturing community that Chester Nimitz was the Navy’s expert on the subject. During Maumee’s construction, a representative of Busch-Sulzer Brothers, a manufacturer in St. Louis, Missouri that began building diesel engines for the Navy in 1913, approached Nimitz offering him a job for $25,000 a year at a time when his pay was $240 a month, plus $48 BAQ. When Nimitz turned that down, he was offered the opportunity to “…write his own ticket,” but he remained firm in his determination NOT to leave the Navy. The Gateway Arch, shown here behind the Old Courthouse, is the most recognizable part of the St. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...

Apparently, extended new-construction periods are not a recent development nor related solely to nuclear-powered ships. Maumee did not go to sea until October 1916. In the year that followed, her Captain, CDR Henry C. Dinger, and his Executive Officer (Nimitz) worked out the first procedures for transferring fuel oil at sea. 1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ...

Initially, refueling with oil followed the same pattern as coaling – done at anchor in a protected roadstead with the receiving ships moored alongside. In less than six months, Dinger and Nimitz had worked out a mechanism for underway replenishment (UNREP) by towing the receiving ship alongside. Underway Replenishment. ...

When the United States joined the Allies in World War I, Maumee was the oiler that made possible deployment of the Navy’s destroyers across the Atlantic. Nimitz credited Dinger with the plan and its accomplishment, but it is clear that his own reputation was enhanced because of Maumee’s success. World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machine guns, and poison gas. ...

• Henry C. Dinger: UNREP Revolution
• Chester W. Nimitz: Grey Steel & Black Oil

The UNREP Revolution

[1] The UNREP Revolution. By David F. Winkler
... Lt. Nimitz, the diesel expert, served under the command of Lt. Cdr. Henry C. Dinger

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[2] Sea Power:
The UNREP revolution, The Sea Power, May 2001 by Winkler, David F
... The diesel expert, served under the command of Lt. Cdr. Henry C. Dinger
2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

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BLURB: Also see the hyperlinked Wikipedia article on USS Cimarron
with URLs to external discussion groups sharing CIM Sea Stories ...

This new ship class was named after rivers of life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness
with North American Indian tribal names.

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