page_title: USS Mispillion (AO-105)
section_title: Operational history, 1946–1965
hierarchical_section_title: USS Mispillion (AO-105) / Operational history, 1946–1965
caption_attribution_description: English: The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CVA-33) being replenished by the fleet oiler USS Mispillion (AO-105) during rough sea off Korea on 18 December 1952.
context_page_description: USS Mispillion (AO-105) was an Ashtabula-class oiler that served in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1974. She was then transferred to the Military Sealift Command to continue in non-commissioned service as United States Naval Ship USNS Mispillion, in which capacity she served until 1994. Thus far, Mispillion has been the only U.S. Navy ship to bear the name.
context_section_description: Mispillion joined Service Force, US Pacific Fleet (ComServPac), on 6 April 1946. Between then and 1950, she alternated on station tanker duty between Tsingtao, China; Shanghai, China; Subic Bay, Philippines; and Eniwetok, with shuttle runs between the oil port of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf and various ports in Japan, China, the Philippines, the Marshall Islands, and the Mariana Islands. As station tanker at Eniwetok in 1948, she took part in Operation Sandstone, an atomic bomb test. In 1949 she performed cold-weather operations off the Territory of Alaska.
  With the outbreak of the Korean War, Mispillion joined Task Force 90. During her first combat tour she provided logistic support for the huge invasion force that landed United Nations forces at Inchon on 15 September 1950, then rounded the Korean Peninsula to support the forces operating in the Wonsan area. After a brief respite on the United States west coast in the autumn of 1951, she returned in November 1951 for a second combat tour. She continued to support United Nations naval forces as they enforced a continuous blockade of the North Korean coast, rendered gunfire support to United Nations ground forces, and bombarded Communist supply areas, troop concentrations, and transportation centers.
  Operating in both the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan, Mispillion also supported the aircraft carriers of Task Force 77, providing aviation gasoline and fuel oil for the ships. Returning to the United States west coast in August 1952, she got underway again in September 1952 for another nine-month Western Pacific tour with the United States Seventh Fleet. Although she operated primarily in the Korean combat area during each of the above tours, she spent at least one month each time as a station tanker at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, supporting the Taiwan Straits patrol. Mispillion received eight battle stars for her Korean War service.
  Between 1953 and 1964 Mispillion alternated Western Pacific and United States west coast duty with yard periods in between. Participating in various exercises, she joined in Operation Redwing, her second atomic bomb test, in the Marshall Islands in 1956.
caption: Mispillion fueling the aircraft carrier Kearsarge off Korea, 1952
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