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|Ship image=[[File:Uss Patoka AO9.jpg|300px|USS Shenandoah moored to the USS Patoka (AO-9)]]
|Ship caption={{USS|Patoka|AO-9|6}} with {{USS|Shenandoah|ZR-1|6}} moored to her
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|Name=''Patoka''
|Builders=[[Northrop Grumman Newport News|Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.]]
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|Class before=[[Kanawha-class fleet replenishment oiler|''Kanawha'' class]]
|Class after=[[Kaweah-class oiler|''Kaweah'' class]]
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|In commission range=1919–1946
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|Ship type=[[Replenishment oiler]]
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|Ship displacement={{Convert|16800|LT|t|0|lk=on}}
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|Ship armament=* 2 × [[5"/38 caliber gun|{{convert|5|in|mm|abbr=on}}]] guns
* 4 × [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40&nbsp;mm guns]]

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The '''''Patoka''-class oilers''' were a series of eight fleet [[replenishment oiler]]s built for the [[United States Navy]] after [[World War I]].  All but one of the vessels were commissioned between 1919 and 1922, and all were held in various states until the eve of [[World War II]], where all served with the Navy for the duration of the war.  All eight survived the war, after which they were decommissioned and scrapped.

== Ships in class ==
* [[USS Patoka (AO-9)|''Patoka'' (AO-9)]]
* [[USS Sapelo (AO-11)|''Sapelo'' (AO-11)]]
* [[USS Ramapo (AO-12)|''Ramapo'' (AO-12)]]
* [[USS Trinity (AO-13)|''Trinity'' (AO-13)]]
* [[USS Rapidan (AO-18)|''Rapidan'' (AO-18)]]
* [[USS Salinas (AO-19)|''Salinas'' (AO-19)]]
* [[USS Sepulga (AO-20)|''Sepulga'' (AO-20)]]
* [[USS Tippecanoe (AO-21)|''Tippecanoe'' (AO-21)]]

==References==
*{{cite book
| last = Wildenberg
| first = Thomas
| year = 1996
| url = http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/GSBO/index.html
| title = Gray Steel and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea in the U.S. Navy, 1912-1995
| series = 
| location = Annapolis, Maryland
| publisher = Naval Institute Press
| access-date = 2009-04-28
}}

{{Patoka class fleet replenishment oiler}}

[[Category:Auxiliary replenishment ship classes]]
[[Category:Auxiliary ship classes of the United States Navy]]
[[Category:Patoka-class oilers| Patoka class oiler]]
[[Category:World War II auxiliary ships of the United States| Patoka class oiler]]


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