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ATR-113 / ATA-186 Cahokia


USS Cahokia (ATA-186) was transferred to Taiwan renamed ROCS Ta Teng (ATA-367)
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as the Ocean Rescue Tug ATR-113 at Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, TX.
  • Reclassified as Auxiliary Fleet Tug ATA-186, 15 May 1944
  • Launched, 18 September 1944
  • Commissioned USS ATA-186, 24 November 1944
  • Named USS Cahokia (ATA-186), 16 July 1948
  • Decommissioned (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 15 April 1976
  • Sold to Taiwan under the Security Assistance Program, 1 May 1976, renamed ROCS Ta Teng (ATA-367), redesignated (ATA-550) date unknown
  • Final Disposition, discarded by Taiwan, date unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 534 t.
    Length 143'
    Beam 33'
    Draft 13'
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 45
    Armament two twin 40mm gun mounts
    Propulsion diesel-electric engines, single screw
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    USS Cahokia (ATA-186)
    LSM-250 184k ATA-186 is inboard of LSM 250 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, circa 14 June to 31 August 1946. Other ships in the picture are Fremont (APA 44) on the left, Glynn (APA 239) forward of LSM 250.
    US Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 3030-46, dated 22 August 1946    		 Darryl Baker
    Cahokia 55k Cahokia (ATA-186) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, February 1966.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Cahokia 70k Cahokia (ATA-186) steams alongside Hancock (CVA-19) as the carrier heads down San Francisco Bay towards her homeport of NAS Alameda. Hancock was returning from a deployment to Vietnam.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1967    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    ROCS Ta Teng (A-550)
    Cahokia 57k ex Cahokia (ATA-186) in Taiwanese service as ROCS Ta Teng (A-550) underway full dress ship and firing water cannons, date and place unknown. Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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