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Truckee - The Truckee River is a river in the states of California and Nevada. The river flows northeasterly and is 121 miles long. The Truckee is the sole
outlet of Lake Tahoe and drains part of the high Sierra Nevada, emptying into Pyramid Lake in the Great Basin.
Map - The Truckee River drainage basin in California and Nevada, © Kmusser - Self-made, based on USGS data.
Photo - The Truckee River from the UPRR grade just East of Truckee, CA. ©Bruce C. Cooper (DigitalImageServices.com)
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Truckee (AO-147) Christening by the ships sponsor, Mrs, Murrey L. Royar, and launching, 10 March 1955, at New York
Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.
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USS Truckee (AO-147) at sea in 1956. |
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USS Truckee (AO-147) conducting an underway replenishment with USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39), circa 17 September to 4 October 1958. |
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USS Truckee (AO-147) pulls away from USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39)
after completing an underway replenishment, circa 17 September to 4 October 1958. |
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Starboard side view of USS Truckee (AO-147) moored pierside, circa 1953-60, location unknown. |
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USS Truckee (AO-147) conducting a Replenishment at Sea (RAS) with
USS Independence (CVA-62), circa 11 October - 25 November 1962, Caribbean Sea.
Photos courtesy LCDR. Bill Buc USN, VF-84 |
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USS Truckee (AO-147), at Norfolk, VA, July 1964 |
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USS Truckee (AO-147) underway, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, October 1964. |
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USS Truckee (AO-147) entering/leaving port, date and place unknown.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, February 1965. |
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USS Truckee (AO-147) refueling USS Forrestal (CVA-59) and USS Charles P. Cecil (DD-835) during an underway replenishment off the coast of Genoa, Italy, 5 October 1965.
US Navy photo. (Thanks to Ken Killmeyer, USS Forrestal Association historian, who helped with the date and location of this picture). |
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USS Truckee (AO-147) conducting an underway replenishment at sea with
USS America (CVA-66) to port and
USS Harry E. Yarnell (DLG-17) to starboard in the Mediterranean Sea, 26 April 1967. |
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USS Truckee (AO-147),
USS De Soto County (LST-1171) and
ARD-18 at Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp. shipyard, circa 1967-68. ARD-18 is
undergoing conversion to the Medium Auxiliary Repair Dry Dock Endurance (ARDM-3)
US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in
the collections of the US National Archives. |
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USS Truckee (AO-147) conducting an underway replenishment with USS Albany (CG-10) while underway in the Mediterranean Sea, circa 1969-1970. Photos were taken from USS Independence (CVA-62) by Harry B. Kidd, PH2 USN. |
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USNS Truckee (AO-147) under way off Norfolk, VA., in 1970. |
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USS Truckee (AO-147) entering/leaving a European port, date and location unknown. |
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USNS Truckee (AO-147) under way, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
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USNS Truckee (AO-147) refueling the aircraft carrier
USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and frigate USS Thomas C. Hart (FF-1092),
14 August 1975. John F. Kennedy, with embarked Carrier Air Wing 1
(CVW-1), was deployed to the Mediterranean from 28 June 1975 to 27 January 1976.
USN Photo from U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo # 1996.488.128.017, Robert Lawson Collection |
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USS Truckee (AO-147) underway, date and location unknown.
Defense Imagery photo # VIRIN: DN-SC-88-09164, a US Navy photo by PH2 Skip Holmes. |
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USS Truckee (AO-147) under way, date and location unknown.
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USNS Truckee (AO-147) providing TRANSLANT movement of A-6E Intruder BuNo 158536 to/from Naval AIr Repair (NARF) facility
NORVA and deployed fleet unit in 1977.
Photo from RDBEAN Collection. |
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USNS Truckee (T-AO-147) underway off Norfolk, VA., date unknown.
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USNS Truckee (T-AO-147) and USS Puget Sound (AD-38) conducting a refueling at sea, circa 1983, while underway in the Mediterranean Sea. |
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USNS Truckee (T-AO-147) moored pierside at Genoa, Italy in 1985 |
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USNS Truckee (T-AO-147) pier side at NOB Norfolk, VA, 1989. Photo shows damage to hull and bridge wing from collision with USS Yellowstone (AD-41). |
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USNS Truckee (T-AO-147) and the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) conducting an underway replenishment at sea, date and location unknown. |
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USNS Truckee (T-AO-147) under way, date and location unknown.
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Aerial view of Unit 7 of the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA., 28 January 1999.
From bottom to top;
unidentified,
Santa Cruz
Vulcan (AR-5),
Redstone (T-AGM-20),
2 unidentified APs,
GEN. N.M. Walter (T-AP-125),
GEN. Wm. O. Darby (IX-510),
Waccamaw (T-AO-109),
Canisteo (AO-99),
Caloosahatchee (AO-98),
Mississinewa (T-AO-144),
Pawcatuck (T-AO-108)
Truckee (T-AO-147),
Neosho (T-AO-143),
Benjamin Isherwood (T-AO-191) and
Henry Eckford (T-AO-192). These two oilers were both lay-berthed incomplete. |
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Ex-USNS Truckee (T-AO-147) under tow, 7 August 2008, in Hampton Roads off Portsmouth, VA. as she heads for the breakers yard at Bay Bridge Enterprises, Chesapeake VA. |
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Ex-USNS Truckee (T-AO-147) under tow, 7 August 2008, in Hampton Roads as she passes the D&S Piers at Naval Station, Norfolk, VA.
Truckee was enroute to Bay Bridge Enterprises, Chesapeake VA. where she would be broken up.
In the foreground is the nuclear powered attack submarine USS Newport News (SSN-750)
moored pierside at the D&S piers. |
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Ex-USNS Truckee (T-AO-147) arrives, 7 August 2008, at Bay Bridge Enterprises, Chesapeake VA. where she will be broken up. |
Photo by Christopher P. Cavas |
