517) on 8 April 1942 at Sparrows Point, Maryland, by the Bethlehem Steel Company and launched on 29 August 1942 – was renamed SS Enoree and designated as a fuel oil tanker (AO-69) on 17 September 1942.

Departing Baltimore, Maryland, on 27 January 1943 for Norfolk, Virginia, her conversion having been completed the previous day, Enoree proceeded thence to Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, arriving on 3 March 1943, where she was involved in a minor collision with the U.S. Navy oiler USS Sapelo.

Shifting thence to the waters off Ambrose Light, Enoree, escorted by the destroyer Niblack departed on 8 March 1943 for Hampton Roads, Virginia, arriving the following day.

Enoree shuttled between Norfolk, Aruba in the Netherlands West Indies, and Port Arthur Texas, for the balance of May and through mid-June 1943 before she departed Hampton Roads with Task Force 62, the escort for convoy UGS-11, on 27 June 1943, bound, once more, for Casablanca, which she reached on 18 July.

Sailing for home with convoy GUS-10 on 23 July 1943, she paused briefly at Bermuda, shepherded by the destroyer escorts USS Pope and Walter S. Brown, ultimately arriving back in Hampton Roads on 11 August 1943.

Enoree departed Norfolk on 25 April 1944 with the similarly derrick-configured oiler Niobrara, escorted by the destroyer USS Paul Hamilton.

From Ulithi, she supported the United States Third Fleet (under Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.) as it carried out its devastating attacks against Formosa, the coast of China, and in the Nansei Shoto group during January 1945.

Joining Task Unit 30.18.11 on 31 May 1945, Enoree discharged fuel oil, aviation gasoline, and some of her crew to the mobile storage tanker USS Marmora for transportation.

After having loaded a cargo of fuel oil from the merchant tanker SS Skullbar, Enoree sailed from Ulithi on 19 July 1945 for Okinawa in convoy UOK-39, and resumed operations in Buckner Bay soon thereafter.

The cessation of hostilities and the occupation of the Japanese homeland required Enoree’s presence in the Pacific and cancelled her projected 15 July-1 September 1945 overhaul at San Pedro, California.

Enoree thus shuttled back and forth between Okinawa and Ulithi into the autumn of 1945, departing Buckner Bay on 5 October 1945 for Japanese waters to support the occupation.

Proceeding thence via Manila, Philippine Islands, and a brief six-hour liberty call at Singapore, Straits Settlements, Enoree ultimately reached Bahrain, in the Persian Gulf, to load a cargo of fuel, on 15 May 1946.

During Test Able, on 1 July 1946, she lay at Kwajalein, about 155 nautical miles (287 km; 178 mi) southeast of Bikini, and because of the favorable weather conditions and the relatively small size of the bomb, received no contamination from the atomic blast.

Enoree ultimately returned to Bikini lagoon during the morning watch on 29 July 1946, and resumed dispensing fuel oil, a vital logistical task that occupied her throughout much of the month of August 1946.

Over the remainder of the year 1951, Enoree picked up petroleum cargoes at Aruba; Marcus Hoo, Pennsylvania; Houston; Port Arthur; and Perth Amboy, New Jersey, delivering them to Norfolk; Melville, Rhode Island; Newport, Rhode Island; Savannah, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico; and Trinidad.

Remaining there until 20 February 1952, Enoree then visited Freeport, Texas, at the mouth of the Brazos River, before she proceeded on to return to the Panama Canal Zone, bound for the United States West Coast.

Offloading at Earle, New Jersey on 19 January 1954, Enoree entered the Todd Plant, Erie Basin, yard at Brooklyn, New York, the same day, for overhaul; she remained there until 9 March 1954.

Enoree continued shuttling between oil ports like Aruba, Houston, and Galveston, and locales of fleet activity like Gonaïves, Haiti; San Juan; Melville (twice); Key West; and Norfolk (twice) into the spring of 1954.

Underway for Long Beach on that date, she reached her destination the next day, and remained there for four months, her inactivity reflecting decreased military shipping requirements.

Ordered activated and transferred to MSTS on 6 November 1956, Enoree was recommissioned on 10 December 1956 at Long Beach Naval Shipyard with Commander Richard H. Tibbets .

Stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 February 1959, Enoree remained in the National Defense Reserve Fleet’s Beaumont berthing area until sold for scrapping on 27 April 1976 to Luria Brothers and Company, Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio.