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ARS-9 Shackle
WAT-167 / WAGO-167 / WMEC-167 Acushnet

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - November - Lima - Alpha
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Diver Class Rescue and Salvage Ship:
  • Laid down, 26 October 1942, at Basalt Rock Co., Napa, CA.
  • Launched, 1 April 1943
  • Commissioned USS Shackle (ARS-9), 5 February 1944, LT. Charles G. Jenkins, Jr., in command
  • During WWII Shackle was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Iwo Jima operation
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 10 March 1945     		Minesweeping Operations Pacific
    Juneau (East China Sea) 1 to 31 July 1945
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, April to June 1945     		.

  • Decommissioned, 29 June 1946, at San Francisco, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Transferred to US Coast Guard and commissioned USCGC Acushnet (WAT-167), 23 August 1946
  • Redesignated Research Vessel (WAGO-167) in 1971
  • Redesignated Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC-167) in 1978
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Shackle earned three battle stars during World War II
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,720 t.
    Length 213' 6"
    Beam 39'
    Draft 14' 4"
    Speed 15 kts.
    Complement 120
    Armament four 40mm guns, four .50 cal machine guns
    Propulsion Diesel-electric, four Fairbanks-Morse 6-cylinder opposed piston engines driving four generators and motors, driving two shafts with 3460 Shaft Horse Power
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    Shackle 52k Ex-Shackle (ARS-9) in US Coast Guard service as USCG Acushnet (WAT-167) underway, circa 1948, location unknown.
    US Coast Guard photo.    		 Robert Hurst
    Shackle 77k USCG Acushnet (WAT-167) underway, circa 1957, place unknown.
    US Coast Guard photo # 050571003, 11th Coast Guard District photo, 1957    		 US Coast Guard Historian's Office
    Shackle 47k USCGC Acushnet (WAT-167) underway, date and place unknown. Ken Laesser
    Shackle 59k USCGC Acushnet (WAT-167) underway, date and place unknown. Robert Hurst
    Shackle 25k USCGC Acushnet (WMEC-167) underway, date and place unknown. Ken Laesser
    Shackle 57k USCGC Acushnet (WMEC-167) underway in Alaskan waters, date unknown.
    US Coast Guard photo.    		 US Coast Guard Historian's Office
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    The CG History Center
    U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Acushmet (WMEC-167)
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