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ATR-117 / ATA-190 Samoset


USS Samoset (ATA-190) was transferred to Haiti
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) - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal
ATA-121 Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug:
  • Planned and authorized as Rescue Ocean Tug ATR-117
  • Reclassified Auxiliary Fleet Tug ATA-190,15 May 1944
  • Laid down, 29 September 1944 at Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, TX.
  • Launched, 26 October 1944
  • Commissioned USS ATA-190, 1 January 1945, LTjg. Elmo D. Twiehaus in command
  • During World War II ATA-190 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following Campaign:
  • Named USS Samoset (ATA-190), 16 July 1948
  • Decommissioned, 12 September 1969
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA.
  • Transferred, cash sale, to Haiti under the Security Assistance Program, 1 October 1978
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1978
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Samoset as ATA-190 earned one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 610 t.(lt) 830 t.(fl)
    Length 143'
    Beam 33'
    Draft 15'
    Speed 12.5 kts.
    Complement 45
    Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts
    Propulsion diesel-electric engines, single screw
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    Samoset 135k Samoset (ATA-190) underway in Chesapeake Bay, 1967.
    US Navy photo from DANFS.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Samoset 26k Samoset (ATA-190) underway from Naval Station Norfolk, circa 1963.
    US Navy photo.    		 Contributed by Craig Rothhammer to
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