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USS Undaunted (ATA-199)
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 USS ATA-199 (1945 - 1948)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - India - Kilo - Echo
 NIKE
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Second Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal
Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug:
  • Laid down, 27 November 1943, as a Rescue Ocean Tug ATR-126, at Gulfport Boiler and Welding Works, Port Arthur TX.
  • Reclassified Auxiliary Ocean Tug ATA 199, 15 May 1944
  • Launched, 22 August 1944
  • Commissioned USS ATA-199, 29 October 1944, LT. Guy S. Flanagan, Jr., USNR, in command
  • Decommissioned in 1947
  • Custody assigned to the Maritime Commission in 1948 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • Named Undaunted (ATA-199), 16 July 1948
  • Struck from the Naval Register, January 1963
  • Transferred to NOAA in 1963
  • Loaned in July 1964 to the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
  • Transferred to the US Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y.; renamed T/V Kings Pointer
  • Sold in 1993, renamed Krystal-K
  • Sold in 1998 to Pere Marquetta Shipping Co. Ludington, MI., renamed Undaunted, used as pusher tug on the Great Lakes
  • Disposition, as of 2001 still in service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 534 t.
    Length 143'
    Beam 33'
    Draft 13'
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 5 officers, 42 enlisted
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion diesel-electric engines, single screw
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    Undaunted 40k Seen here as the Pere Marquetta Shipping Co. tug Undaunted. 18 July 1998, photo by M. Hanley. Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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