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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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