USS Neosho

Sunk

Type	Auxiliary
Class	Cimarron
War	Second World War
Main guns	4 × 5″ guns

Fleet oiler. Survived Pearl Harbor. At the Coral Sea Japanese aviators reported her as a carrier and their whole strike sank her and Sims. She drifted for four days before her survivors were found.

The U.S. Navy fleet oiler USS Neosho (AO-23) at the time of her commissioning, circa mid-1939. Photo: U.S. Navy, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

4 × single 5 in (127 mm) DP Guns
4 × single 20 mm (0.8 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons

Builder	Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey
Laid down	22 June 1938
Launched	29 April 1939
Commissioned	7 August 1939
Displacement	7,470 long tons (7,590 t) (standard) 24,830 long tons (25,228 t) (full load)
Length	553 ft (169 m)
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement	304

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

29 April 1939

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Survived

7 December 1941

Moved her full tanks clear of Battleship Row

Battle of the Coral Sea

Sunk

4–8 May 1942

Taken for a carrier