page_title: USS Ocelot (IX-110)
section_title: Loss and disposal
hierarchical_section_title: USS Ocelot (IX-110) / Service history / In United States Navy / Loss and disposal
caption_attribution_description: English: USS&#160;Ocelot&#160;(IX-110) aground in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, after Typhoon Louise ravaged that port in October 1945. Photographed in November 1945. Her stern was cut off when USS&#160;Nestor&#160;(ARB-6), visible to the right, crashed into her during the storm.
context_page_description: USS Ocelot was an unclassified miscellaneous vessel of the United States Navy, which served as the flagship of Service Squadron 10 in the Pacific War from late 1944, until she was wrecked in a typhoon in late 1945.
context_section_description: Ocelot was involved in a series of collisions with other vessels; the barge YF-1079, the stores ship Zaniah (AG-70), the landing ship medium LSM-39, and the victory ship SS Pratt Victory, before she attempted to move into the safer waters of the open sea. However she grounded on a reef, where she was then struck by the merchant ship SS Victor H. Oulanhan. Rapidly taking on water, the crew formed a bucket line, and bailed continuously for six hours. After attempts by tugs to refloat her failed, the ship was abandoned. She was eventually refloated, but on 9 October during Typhoon Louise she was struck by the repair ship Nestor (ARB-6), which severed her stern section. Stripped of salvageable items, she was abandoned on 29 October, decommissioned on 6 December, and was struck from the Navy List on 3 January 1946.
  Ocelot was returned to the custody of the WSA on 5 April 1946 and her hulk was sold by the Maritime Commission, along with seven other wrecks and five civilian liberty ships, to China Merchants and Engineers, Inc. for scrapping on 19 February 1948.
caption: USS Ocelot (IX-110) aground in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, November 1945. Her stern was cut off when USS Nestor (ARB-6), visible to the right, crashed into her during the storm.
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