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USS Cahokia (ATA-186)
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 USS ATA-186 (1944 - 1948)


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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal

USS Cahokia (ATA-186) was transferred to Taiwan renamed ROCS Ta Teng (ATA-367)
Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug:
  • Laid down, 16 August 1944, 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, LT. J. T. Dillon, USNR, in command
  • 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 610 t.(lt) 860 t.(fl)
    Length 143'
    Beam 34'
    Draft 15'
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 7 Officers, 42 Enlisted
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 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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    USS ATA-186
    LSM-250 184k USS ATA-186 inboard of USS LSM 250 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, circa 14 June to 31 August 1946. Other ships in the picture are USS Fremont (APA 44) on the left, USS Glynn (APA 239) forward of USS LSM 250.
    US Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 3030-46, dated 22 August 1946    		 Darryl Baker
    USS Cahokia (ATA-186)
    Cahokia 55k USS Cahokia (ATA-186) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, February 1966.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Cahokia 70k USS Cahokia (ATA-186) steams alongside USS 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 USS Cahokia (ATA-186) in Taiwanese Naval 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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