USS Yahara ( AOG - 37 ) USS " Yahara " ( AOG - 37 ) was a acquired by the U . S . Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet , and to remote Navy stations . " Yahara " was named by the U . S . Navy after the Yahara , a river which rises at a small lake in Dane County , Wisconsin , and flows south and southeast through Madison , Wisconsin , to empty into the Rock River about nine miles northwest of Janesville , Wisconsin . " Yahara " was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract ( MC hull 1800 ) on 6 June 1944 at Bayonne , New Jersey , by the East Coast Shipyard , Inc . ; launched on 30 July 1944 ; sponsored by Miss Cynthia Tenety ; converted for naval service at Brooklyn , New York , by the Marine Basin Co . ; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 29 September 1944 , Lt . N . Clark Biggs , USNR , in command . Pacific Ocean operations . The new gasoline tanker got underway for Norfolk , Virginia , on 30 October . Following shakedown in Chesapeake Bay , " Yahara " sailed for the Netherlands West Indies on 22 November to take on a cargo of aviation gasoline and diesel oil at Aruba . Loaded to capacity , she sailed on 1 December for the west coast ; transited the Panama Canal on the 6th ; and proceeded via San Diego , California , to Hawaii . Upon her arrival at Pearl Harbor on 2 January 1945 , the ship joined Service Squadron ( ServRon ) 8 . Departing Pearl Harbor on 5 January for the Phoenix group , she delivered her cargo of aviation gas and oil to Canton Island on the 13th and returned to Pearl Harbor two days later . She continued her fuel shuttle operations in the Hawaiian chain through most of February , making runs to Johnston Island and Maui . The tanker sailed for the Marshalls on the 25th as part of Task Unit 16 . 8 . 13 . En route , she delivered a cargo of aviation gasoline to the naval air station at Johnston Island for use by planes engaged in the search for Lt . Gen . Millard F . Harmon , whose plane had been lost at sea . The ship arrived at Eniwetok on 13 March and , after waiting four days for a convoy bound for the Western Carolines , got underway on St . Patrick ' s Day and proceeded independently to Ulithi . Joining ServRon 10 a week later , she took on a cargo of gasoline , diesel oil , and lubricating oil . However , she stood by at Ulithi , awaiting instructions through all of April and the first half of May before the long - awaited orders arrived and directed her to join Task Force 51 . Okinawa operations . On 19 May , " Yahara " got underway for Kerama Retto , in company with Convoy UOK 16 . Rerouted en route , to the beachhead at Hagushi , the tanker arrived off Okinawa on 28 May . She remained in the Okinawa area through the cessation of hostilities in August , at Naha , le Shima , Chimu Wan , and Buckner Bay . During this period , she provided shuttle tanker services , transporting fuel from large tankers offshore to shore installations , and served as a small craft fueling center . Typhoon damage . In the course of her operations , she weathered three typhoons ( 19 July to 21 July ; 1 August to 3 August ; 16 September to 18 September ) and , after the September " blow " , was forced to assume emergency harbor duty , as all of the smaller yard oilers had been driven aground by the fury of the storm . A fourth typhoon struck on 9 October ; and " Yahara " , while riding it out , lost her starboard anchor when its chain parted . The ship dragged her port anchor some three miles while winds in excess of lashed Buckner Bay . World War II ends . Her duty completed and the war over , " Yahara " sailed for home on 14 December , in company with sister ship . Arriving at Pearl Harbor on 5 January 1946 , " Yahara " resumed her voyage to the U . S . West Coast on the 9th and arrived at San Francisco , California on the 20th . She spent the remainder of the month on the California seaboard before heading for the Panama Canal and the U . S . East Coast . East Coast assignment . From 4 March to 25 April , " Yahara " served the 16th Fleet ( the Atlantic Fleet Reserve ) , providing diesel oil to ships on reserve duty at Lake Charles , Louisiana , and Jacksonville , Florida . Decommissioning . Decommissioned at New Orleans , Louisiana on 21 May , " Yahara " was struck from the Navy list on 19 July 1946 and transferred to the War Shipping Administration , Maritime Commission , on 5 November 1946 . Post - Decommissioning activity . Late in 1947 , " Yahara " was acquired by the Texas Oil Company and renamed " El Caribe " . She subsequently operated under a succession of flags — Norwegian , British , and French — into the 1950s before her documentary trail becomes cloudy . Homeported at Oslo , Norway , from 1947 to 1952 , she served the Texas Oil Company ' s Norwegian subsidiary and then sailed under the British flag with first the Verbomilia Steamship Co . and later with the Cousotanker Co . , Ltd . ( both of London ) in 1953 and 1954 . Her last recorded registry was French ; and , still as " El Caribe " , she homeported at Marseilles , France , from 1954 to 1958 , with the Societe Meridionale d ' Armement . Renamed " Crysanthi P " , she is carried on the American Bureau of Shipping ' s Record from 1958 to 1960 under this name but without any clue as to her nationality or ownership . Thereafter , all trace of the ship seems to have disappeared . Awards . USS " Yahara " received one battle star for World War II .