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Neosho

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TypeOiler (AO)
HullAO-23
FateSunk. Wrecked by aircraft from Shokaku and Zuikaku on 7 May 1942, with Sims. She did not go down in that attack. Not credited to one ship. On 11 May the destroyer Henley scuttled the hulk. This is AO-23.
Command

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

Neosho
U.S. Navy. Neosho (AO-23) before the war. This is the oiler lost in the Coral Sea, not a later ship of the same name. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fleet oiler, AO-23. On 7 May 1942 aircraft from Shokaku and Zuikaku mistook her and Sims for the American carriers. They wrecked her. She did not go down in that attack. Not credited to one ship. On 11 May the destroyer Henley took off the last of her people and scuttled the hulk.

Neosho burning on 7 May 1942, a small ship in the smoke
7 May 1942. Aircraft from Shokaku and Zuikaku have hit her. She is the small ship in the smoke. Not credited to one ship. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.