New Jersey Scuba Diving

AOG-23 Ammonusuc

Built in 1944, by East Coast Shipyards Incorporated of Bayonne, New Jersey ( hull #5 ) as the Ammonusuc ( design number USMC #1520, Mettawee class, ) a T-1 tanker for the United States Navy. T-1 tankers were small product carriers, designed to carry gasoline. Almost all of them went to either the US Navy, as AOGs, or to Britain, for service in a similar role. Many were under construction at the end of the war, and were sold immediately. This unit entered service on May 19th, 1944, and was designated as AOG-23.

In 1948, she was sold and renamed Providence. In 1962, the unit was acquired by Texaco Marine Company Incorporated of Beaumont, Texas, where she was lengthened, and renamed Texaco Providence. In 1968, she was acquired by the Reinauer Transportation Companies of Staten Island, New York, and renamed Dean Reinauer.

In 1969, she was burned up and declared a constructive total loss. In 1970, she was converted to a tank barge at the Caddell's Dry Dock Company in Staten Island, New York, and renamed BFT No. 1. Assigned to the Reinauer Transportation Company subsidiary Boston Fuel Transportation Company of Boston, Massachusetts.

The barge was then acquired by a Norfolk, Virginia-based owner, renamed Mary C, and converted to carry sludge. Then acquired by Eklof Marine Corporation of Staten Island, New York, and stripped for spare parts.