USS Alameda (AO-10)

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USS Alameda (AO-10) was a Design 1128 tanker built for the United States Shipping Board by William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia. Laid down December 16, 1918; launched July 15, 1919; completed October 1919 and commissioned October 17, 1919 as USS Alameda (Fuel Ship No. 10). She served with the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, mainly fueling ships along the U.S. East Coast and in the Atlantic.

In November 1921 a fire in the engine room forced the crew to abandon ship. The United States Coast Guard cutter Seminole and the British steamer Bristol rescued the crew and Alameda was towed to Norfolk, where she was decommissioned March 29, 1922. She was stricken August 8, 1922 and sold August 18 to the Newport Engineering Company.

Rebuilt and returned to mercantile service as SS Olean in 1925, she later sailed for Vacuum Oil Company (later Socony-Vacuum) after 1931. In March 1942, as Olean, she was torpedoed twice by U-158 off North Carolina but survived and was towed to Hampton Roads for repair. Reconditioned and re-engined, she returned to service as SS Sweep and was transferred to the Navy in July 1944 as USS Silver Cloud (IX-143), a mobile floating storage tanker in the Pacific. She operated at Seeadler Harbor and Leyte before heading to Mobile, Alabama for disposal in 1946. Decommissioned March 29, 1946, stricken April 17, and sold for scrapping January 21, 1947.