USS Wabash

USS Wabash. (AOR-5). The keel of the USS Wabash was laid down January 21, 1970 at the General Dynamics shipyard in Quincy, Mass. It was commissioned on Nov 20, 1971 at the Boston Naval Shipyard. Captain Robert P. Chrisler was in command. , The USS Wabash was a replenishment oiler and was originally based in Long Beach, Calif. , Her first deployment was in support of U.S. combat ships in Vietnam and she began in the Tonkin Gulf on December 7, 1972. She conducted 46 underway replenishments a day during the final phase of American combat operations in Vietnam, leaving there in mid-1973. , The USS Wabash was decommissioned in 1994 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 1997. She then was laid up in the National Defense Reserve fleet located in Suisun Bay, Calif. , The USS Wabash was named after the mighty river of the mid-west United States, flowing only a short distance from this spot to the east and south., (supplementary plaque:), Bell from the USS Wabash, The USS Wabash was a Replenishment Oiler in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. , Commissioned November 20, 1971 , Decommissioned September 30, 1994 , Named after the Wabash River . This historical marker is in Mount Carmel in Wabash County Illinois