USS Chehalis, a 1850-ton Patapsco class gasoline tanker built at Savage, Minnesota, was placed in commission in December 1944. She went to the Pacific early in 1945, arrived in Philippine waters in May and spent the next seven months providing fuel for motor torpedo boats and other small craft there and at Okinawa. Beginning in March 1946 the tanker was employed transporting fuel in the central and southern Pacific. While at Tutuila, American Samoa, on 7 October 1949 USS Chehalis suffered a gasoline explosion, burned and sank. Six of her crew lost their lives in this accident.
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