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USS Reindeer (ATA-189)
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USS ATA-189 (1944 - 1948)
International Radio Call Sign:
November - India - India - Romeo
NIIR
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 - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal
Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug:
Laid down, 11 September 1944, as Rescue Ocean Tug (ATR-116) at Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, TX.
Launched 19 October 1944
Commissioned USS ATA-189, 20 December 1944
Decommissioned, 29 August 1947, at Orange TX.
Named, USS Reindeer (ATA-189), 16 July 1948
Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group; Orange until 21 November 1948
Transferred to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Galveston until June 1958
Towed to Green Cove Springs FL. for lay up, 25 June 1958
Towed to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA., 27 February 1961
Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1962
Custody transferred to the Maritime Administration, 1 September 1962
Sold by the Maritime Administration, 28 March 1975, for non-transportation use, Arctic Seafood Corp.
Final Disposition, fate unknown
Specifications:
Displacement 534 t.(lt) 835 t.(fl)
Length 143'
Beam 33' 10"
Draft 13' 2"
Speed 13 kts.
Complement 45
Armament
one single 3"/50 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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