USS Caloosahatchee (AO-98) was a Cimarron-class fleet oiler constructed for the United States Navy for use in World War II but commissioned too late for service in that conflict.

[1] Caloosahatchee cruised off the East Coast of the United States, transporting oil and fueling ships at sea, and made a voyage to Iceland from Norfolk, Virginia, during her first two years of operations.

On 14 August 1947, she sailed for her first tour of duty with the United States Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, a deployment that marked almost every year of her operations from that time into 1960.

Caloosahatchee was recommissioned on 27 September 1969 and assigned to Service Squadron 2 (SERVRON 2), homeported in Newport, Rhode Island (USA).

[citation needed] In 1978, Caloosahatchee underwent an eight-month major extended regular overhaul in Brooklyn, New York City.

She was transferred to the Maritime Administration on 18 December 1998 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, Virginia.

[1] Caloosahatchee and three other decommissioned Navy ships, Canisteo, Canopus and Compass Island all arrived at Able UK under the same contract and came to be known as the "Hartlepool Four".

[5] Local protests and legal challenges, alleging unacceptable amounts of toxic substances contained on and in the vessels, delayed scrapping until Able UK secured the appropriate waste management licensing in August 2008.

[citation needed] Caloosahatchee's crew were authorized the following medals: This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.