USS Cuyama (AO-3) was a tanker of the United States Navy launched 17 June 1916 by Mare Island Navy Yard; sponsored by Miss M. Offley; and commissioned...
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Cuyama (/kwiːˈjɑːmə/; (Chumash: Kuyam, meaning "Clam")) is a census-designated place in Santa Barbara County. California. It is located in the Cuyama...
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Technology, and later in 1919, became engineering officer of the tanker USS Cuyama. A fellow officer observed that Rochefort had a penchant for solving crossword...
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the senior course in June 1926 he returned to sea in command of the oiler Cuyama (AO-3). In May 1927 he was transferred to command of Division 30, Destroyer...
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and Cuyama-classes moderate 14-knot speed made them useful in the early days of World War II. Two of these oilers were lost to Japanese action. Cuyama (AO-3)...
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to the USS Tennessee, 1932-33; assignment to the USS New Mexico, 1933-36; assignment to the USS Mahan, 1936-38; assignment to the USS Cuyama, 1938-39;...
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1914 USS Maumee – tanker, steel 1915 USS Cuyama – tanker, steel 1916 USS Shaw, destroyer – steel 1916 USS California – battleship, steel 1916 USS Caldwell...
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the Aircraft Squadron Battle Fleet, before being assigned to the tanker USS Cuyama as its executive officer from 1928 to 1930. He retired for the first time...
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William Reynolds Purnell, Jr. After the war, he commanded the tanker USS Cuyama from 1934 to 1936. Alternating duty afloat with service ashore, he then...
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US Navy ship to be refuelled while underway, towed astern by the oiler Cuyama. For the remainder of her service Hogan assisted U.S. battleships in conducting...
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