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Originally Posted by
Aktungbby
A misspelling of
Klickitat
I presume,
Named after a river in Washington State: Commisioned July 1945-decommisioned 1946: Klickitat AOG-64; Her class included several vessels, not all of which were commissioned . Klickitat, a gasoline tanker was decommissioned the following year and sold to Argentina-becoming
Punta
Loyola
. Many were sold to South American counties and China. Coast Guard operated; of short duration; and VERY dangerous!
Many are listed as "fate Unknown"-probably quietly scrapped...Klickitat, according to an Coast Guardsman's obituary, did serve in the European theatre.
Oh well, that's certainly something I did not know, thanks!
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