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USS Accokeek (ATA-181)
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 USS ATA-181 (1944 - 1948)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Quebec - Golf
 NJQG
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Medal (with Asia Clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug
  • Planned and authorized as Rescue Ocean Tug (ATR-108)
  • Reclassified Auxiliary Fleet Tug (ATA-181),15 May 1944
  • Laid down, 15 June 1944, at Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, TX.
  • Launched, 27 July 1944
  • Commissioned, USS ATA-181, 7 October 1944, LT. C. M. Lacour in command
  • During World War II USS ATA-181 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaign:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, May 1945
  • Named USS Accokeek (ATA-181), 16 July 1948
  • Decommissioned, 29 June 1972
  • Laid up at the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center, Panama City, FL, (NAVDIVESALTRACEN), maintenance category X
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 31 March 1986
  • Sold, 29 July 1972, to ISMF, Norfolk, VA.
  • Final Disposition, sunk as a target or destroyed by test, 09 July 2000 near Panama City, FL.
  • USS Accokeek earned one battle star as USS ATA-181 during World War II
    Specifications:
    Displacement 835 t.(fl)
    Length 143'
    Beam 33' 10"
    Draft 13' 2"
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 7 Officers 42 Enlisted
    Armament
    one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    two twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion two GM 12-278A diesel-electric engines, single screw, 1,500 SHP
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    Accokeek 79k USS Accokeek (ATA-181) underway in the Delaware River near the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, 18 July 1966, her crew at quarters. Photo by Bruno T. Wojciechowski
    US Navy photo # NH 92281 from DANFS.         		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
    Accokeek 86k Ex Accokeek (ATA-181) being sunk as a reef project/diving site, date and place unknown. Al Consiglio, via Dan Grizzard, courtesy Mike Turner, NAFTS
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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