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 | Ship country =  United States
 | Ship flag =  {{USN flag|1957}}
 | Ship name =  ''Mission San Jose''
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 | Ship laid down =  17 July 1943
 | Ship launched =  7 October 1943
 | Ship acquired =  5 November 1947
 | Ship in service =  5 November 1947
 | Ship out of service =  15 October 1957
 | Ship struck =  15 October 1957
 | Ship identification = {{IMO Number|6621234}}
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*Sold, 24 June 1966
*Scrapped 22 April 2011
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 | Ship displacement =*21,880 tons [[full displacement|full]]
*&nbsp; 5,532 tons [[light displacement|light]]
 | Ship length =  524 ft (160 m)
 | Ship beam = &nbsp; 68 ft (21 m)
 | Ship draft = &nbsp; 30 ft (9 m)
 | Ship propulsion =*Turbo-electric, single screw,
*6,000 hp (4.5 MW)
 | Ship speed =  {{convert|16.5|kn|km/h|0}}
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 | Ship complement =  52 mariners
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'''SS ''Mission San Jose''''' was a [[Type T2-SE-A2 tanker|Type T2-SE-A2]] [[tanker (ship)|tanker]] built for the [[United States Maritime Commission]] during [[World War II]]. After the war she was acquired by the [[United States Navy]] as '''USS ''Mission San Jose'''''. Later the tanker transferred to the [[Military Sea Transportation Service]] as '''USNS ''Mission San Jose'''''. She was a {{sclass|Mission Buenaventura|oiler||ship}}  and was named for [[Mission San José (California)|Mission San José]], located in [[Fremont, California]].

== Career ==
''Mission San Jose'' was laid down 17 July 1943 under a [[Maritime Commission]] contract by Marine Ship Corporation, [[Sausalito, California]]; launched 7 October 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Robert L. Bridges and delivered 29 January 1944. Chartered to [[Pacific Tankers Inc.]] for operations, she spent the remainder of the war carrying fuel to Allied forces overseas. She served in this capacity until 3 May 1946, when she was returned to the Maritime Commission and laid up in the Maritime Reserve Fleet at [[Mobile, Alabama]].

Acquired by the Navy on 5 November 1947, she was placed in service with the [[Naval Transportation Service]] as ''Mission San Jose ''(AO-125). After 1 October 1949, she was under the operational control of the new [[Military Sea Transportation Service]] (MSTS) as USNS ''Mission San Jose'' (T-AO-I25). She served with MSTS until 15 October 1957, when she was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] and transferred to the [[Maritime Administration]] (MARAD) for lay up in the Maritime Reserve Fleet at [[Suisun City, California|Suisun Bay, California]].

The ship was sold to the Hudson Waterways Corporation on 24 June 1966, and renamed ''Seatrain Ohio''. She was subsequently lengthened using sections of two other T2 tankers, the ''Tomahawk'' and ''Mission San Diego'', and rebuilt by [[Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Company]] into one of seven [[Seatrain Lines]] multi-purpose cargo ships capable of carrying general bulk and palletized cargo, [[intermodal containers]], vehicles and rail cars. Upon completion of the conversion and delivery in 1967 ''Seatrain Ohio'', IMO 6621234, was chartered to the MSTS in support of overseas U.S. military operations, including the transport of material, equipment and aircraft to [[Vietnam]]. The ship was transferred to the [[National Defense Reserve Fleet]] (James River) in November 1973 and on 8 August 1978, her name was changed to just ''Ohio''. In 1990 ''Ohio'' was reactivated for service in support of the First Persian [[Gulf War]] and subsequently returned to the Reserve Fleet (Beaumont, Texas). The ship was retired and broken up in 2011.{{sfn|Hendrickson|2005|pp=89-102}}

==References==
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*{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/m12/mission_san_lose.htm <!-- Note typo. -->}}
* {{cite web |title=T-AO-125 ''Mission San Jose'' |work=Fleet Oiler (AO) Photo Index |url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/19/19125.htm |access-date=2008-02-12}}
* {{cite book|last=Hendrickson|first=David|title=From Boxcars to Boxships: The Ships of Seatrain Lines; Steamboat Bill No.254, 2005|date=2005|publisher=Steamship Historical Society of America}}

== External links ==
*{{navsource|09/19/19125|Mission San Jose (AO-125)}}
*{{HAER |survey=TX-111 |id=tx1053 |title=Seatrain Ohio, Beaumont Reserve Fleet, Neches River, Beaumont, Jefferson County, TX |photos=38 |color=7 |dwgs=2 |data=13 |cap=3}}

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[[Category:Type T2-SE-A2 tankers]]
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[[Category:World War II tankers of the United States]]
[[Category:Historic American Engineering Record in Texas]]
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