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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Patches: left contributed by Mike Smolinski, right submitted to NAFTS by Harry Jeager

USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39)
ex
USS Edenton (ATS-1) (1971 - 1996)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Xray - Sierra - Foxtrot NXST

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Secretary of the Navy Letter of Commendation
Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (2)
Bottom Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (4) - Navy Expeditionary Medal (2-Lebanon, 4-Libya) - National Defense Service Medal

Edenton Class Salvage and Rescue Ship:

Laid down, 28 March 1967, at Brooke Marine, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft, United Kingdom

Launched, 15 May 1968

Commissioned USS Edenton (ATS-1), 23 January 1971

Decommissioned, 29 March 1996

Transferred to the US Coast Guard, 18 November 1997

Struck from the Naval Register, 29 December 1997

Commissioned USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39), 10 July 1999, homeported at Kodiak, AK.

Specifications:
Displacement 2,592 t.(lt) 3,063 t.(fl)
Length 283'
Beam 59'
Draft 18' (max)
Complement 106
Armament

two 20mm AA gun mounts

four .50-cal. machine guns
Propulsion diesel, twin screws

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Edenton (ATS-1)
	34k	Launching of *PCU Edenton* (ATS-1)** at the Brooke Marine Yard, Lowestoft, England, 15 May 1968. Photo contributed by Harry Jaeger to the National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors.	Robert Hurst
	93k	*USS Edenton* (ATS-1) alongside USS Macdonough (DDG 39)**, Barcelona, Spain, 28 December 1978.	Photo by Fabio Peña
	118k	*USS Edenton* (ATS-1)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from the collections of the US Navy Memorial.	Stan Svec
	93k	*USS Edenton* (ATS-1) at anchor in Augusta Bay, Sicily, 27 January 1976. Edenton was at Augusta Bay to help re-float USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7)** which had run aground.	© Richard Leonhardt
	99k		© Richard Leonhardt
	91k	*USS Edenton* (ATS-1)** moored pierside at Barcelona, Spain, 13 April 1980. Noticeable in this photo are two of the ship's four mooring buoys beside the funnel, and the 20-ton-capacity crane.	Photo by Fabio Peña
	78k	*USS Edenton* (ATS-1)** moored pierside at Barcelona, Spain, 13 April 1980. Note what appears to be a target sled on the fantail.	Photo by Fabio Peña
	98k	Port bow view of *USS Edenton* (ATS-1)** at anchor off the Virginia Capes, 8 August 1989. DVIC photo # DN-ST-89-11247 by PH1 Elliott, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center..	Bill Gonyo
	1431k	*USS Edenton* (ATS-1)** underway in Hampton Roads off Naval Air Station Norfolk, VA., 3 October 1991. DVIC photo # DN-ST-92-03955 by JO1 Gregg Snaza, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.	Bill Gonyo
USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39)
	41k	Tugs assist ex-*USS Edenton* (ATS-1)** at the Coast Guard's Curtis Bay Yard, MD, prior to conversion to USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39), circa November 1997. US Coast Guard photos contributed to the National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors by Mike Turner	Robert Hurst
	23k		Robert Hurst
	74k	USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) underway, date and location unknown. US Coast Guard photo
	13k	USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) moored at US Coast Guard Support Center, Kodiak, Alaska, date unknown.	Ken Laesser
	124k	USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) moored at US Coast Guard Yard Baltimore, MD.. US Coast Guard photo # 990806-I-9954H-503; 6 August 1999 by PA3 Bridget Hieronymus USGC.	US Coast Guard Historian's Office
	77k	USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) underway, date and location unknown. US Coast Guard photo.	Robert Hurst
	1058k	USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) moored pierside at Dutch Harbor Alaska, 7 July 2009. Photo by Cypherak.	Robert Hurst