Henry C. Dinger in command, Maumee spent the remainder of 1916 working up to join the fleet. The ship’s hull escaped damage, but she remained in port for repairs, and left on Halloween for the United States, returning to Hampton Roads on 7 November. Harsh weather delayed NC-4 until she flew to Ponta Delgada the following day, where the craft remained for nearly a week, undergoing repairs and awaiting more favorable weather. diesel engines running at 125 rpm. After a brief (24 June–9 July) stop in New York to await orders, she departed for the Mississippi River on 13 July. She departed Norfolk 20 June and arrived at Pearl Harbor 15 July, the same day she was redesignated AG-124. Kesler, and Machinist Rasmus Christensen; NC-3 (BuNo. In August Maumee received approval for renovations to expand the size of her complement to 253, an addition of 150 new crewmen. On 15 June 1944, Maumee sailed with NK-620, then anchored off Key West (20–21 June), took on oil while moored at Deer Park, Texas (24–25 June), and ultimately anchored at Bermuda over Independence Day (2–6 July). Maumee rendezvoused with Task Unit (TU) 70.2.3 and resumed her China-bound voyage and anchored off the Yangtze River on 30 September. She sailed for home 22 December, returning to Norfolk 9 January 1943 and completing an oil run to Aruba before getting underway again for North Africa 19 March. The ships moored at Cristóbal on 19 April, and then (20–21 April) passed through the isthmian waterway. With the fueling of those six destroyers, Maumee pioneered the Navy’s underway refueling operations, thus establishing a pattern of mobile logistic support which would enable the Navy to keep its fleets at sea for extended periods, with a far greater range independent of the availability of a friendly port. Three days later, Maumee ascended the Whangpoo [Huangpu] River to Shanghai, where the oiler served as station fuel ship until she was reassigned to the Atlantic Fleet and returned to Pearl Harbor (16 November–8 December 1945). The busy cycle continued and Maumee turned her prow northward to New York on 26 May, moored at one of the metropolis’ piers on Hudson River the next day, and shaped easterly courses with TF 69 in convoy UGS-9, and tied up at the Transverse Jetty at Casablanca (28 May–15 June). (U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships Photograph, 19-LCM Collection, Box 93, National Archives and Records Administration, Still Pictures Branch, College Park, Md. At 0556 on 28 May 1917, Maumee’s watchstanders logged that they “sighted destroyers 3 points forward of port beam,” as Maumee rendezvoused with Drayton (Destroyer No. John H. Towers in command, to assay the perilous crossing, but sailors removed the wings from NC-2 (BuNo. On the afternoon of 1 October the ship departed for Trinidad, which she reached the next day, operated mostly from Trinidad into November, and on the afternoon of 1 December shifted from the oil dock at Point a Pierre at Trinidad to the A-1 Anchorage Area at the NOB there. Maumee, the fourth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name, was laid down at Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Chester, Pennsylvania, RELOAD PAGE. Against a backdrop of worsening international relations in Europe and Asia a little over a year later, however, on 17 May 1941, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox approved refitting and recommissioning Maumee. In May 1945 Maumee received orders to join the Pacific Fleet. The heavy seas pounded Maumee as well, and the ship limped into Horta to make emergency repairs to her main engines (20–28 May). The ships stopped briefly at Midway Island (29–30 June 1946), reached Yokosuka, Japan, on 10 July, and four days later sailed for Tsingtao [Qingdao], China, where Maumee anchored on 19 July. Group 1 included: Seattle (Armored Cruiser No. NC-4 flew across the Bay of Biscay, circled over Brest, and despite thick weather arrived at Plymouth, England, at 1:26 p.m. on 31 May. 333 Washington Street, Suite 201. Maumee saw continuous service in the Republic of China Navy until she was decommissioned at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in the summer of 1967. NC-4 got underway with the high tide and arrived overnight at Ferrol, Spain. maumee Information The vessel MAUMEE (IMO: 5057709 ) is a Self Discharging Bulk Carrier built in 1929 (91 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Unknown . Dinger, cut down the time to it took to replenish a single ship. The ship received fuel at Port Arthur (25–27 May), but continued to experience problems and again repaired her engines at New York Navy Yard (3–12 June), but then (13 June–21 September) required extensive repairs and an overhaul at Boston. A distinct change of climate followed; after returning to Norfolk with TG 27.5 (1–22 November), she received orders directing her to the Caribbean. The ship remained afterward observing weather conditions for the next year, and was decommissioned on 9 June 1922, placed in reserve at Philadelphia Navy Yard. Planners prepared four Naval Aircraft Factory and Curtiss NC flying boats of Seaplane Division 1, Cmdr. It was the largest ship to visit Antarctica, and was led into the ice pack by ice breakers. Maumee meanwhile went back to NOB Norfolk (10–12 March), and then (19–22 March) set out for Bermuda with ships of TF 60 as part of Task Group (TG) 60.2: minesweeper Skill (AM-115); five submarine chasers; four auxiliary motor minesweepers; and 27 infantry landing craft (LCIs).