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USS Tunica (ATA-178)
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 USS ATA-178 (1944 - 1948)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Papa - Xray
 NJPX
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug:
  • Laid down, 10 May 1944, as Rescue Ocean Tug ATR-105, at Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, TX.
  • Reclassified Auxiliary Fleet Tug (ATA-178), 15 May 1944
  • Launched, 15 June 1944
  • Commissioned, USS ATA-178, 15 September 1944, LT. J. L. Robinson in command
  • During World War II USS ATA-178 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
  • Decommissioned, 23 September 1947
  • Laid up in the Texas Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet
  • Named, Tunica (ATA-178), 16 July 1948
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration in October 1961 for lay-up with the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, TX.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1962
  • Final disposition, sunk as a target, 29 January 1999.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 835 t.(fl)
    Length 143'
    Beam 33' 10"
    Draft 13' 2"
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 5 Officers 40 Enlisted
    Armament
    one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion two GM 12-278A diesel-electric engines, single screw, 1,500 SHP
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