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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

USCGC Comanche (WMEC-202)
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USS Wampanoag (ATA-202) (1948 - 1959)
USS ATA-202 (1944 - 1948)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - India - Lima - Alpha NILA

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal

Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug

Planned and authorized as Rescue Ocean Tug (ATR-129)

Reclassified Auxiliary Fleet Tug (ATA-202),15 May 1944

Laid down, 24 August 1944, at Gulfport Boiler & Welding, Port Arthur, TX.

Launched, 10 October 1944

Commissioned, USS ATA-202, 8 December 1944

During World War II ATA-202 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaign:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 7 May 1945

Decommissioned, 27 October 1947, at Orange, TX.

Named USS Wampanoag (ATA-202), 16 July 1948

Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange

Loaned to the US Coast Guard, 25 February 1959,

Commissioned USCGC Comanche (WMEC-202)

Struck from the Naval Register and permanently transferred to the US Coast Guard, 1 June 1959

Decommissioned by the Coast Guard, 30 January 1980

Sold for commercial service, date and owner unknown

Laid up at Tacoma, WA. in 2000

An attempt to acquire Comanche by the American Fleet Tug Museum was not successful in 2006

Donated to the Comanche 202 Foundation to serve as a non-profit historic and educational vessel in the south Puget Sound area

Current status, moored at Olympia, WA. during restoration

USS ATA-202 was awarded one battle star for World War II service

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 gun mounts
Propulsion diesel-electric engines, single screw

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Wampanoag (ATA-202)
	30k	USS ATA-202 underway, date and place unknown.	Courtesy NAFTS, Contributed by Bill Mozingo
USCGC Comanche (WMEC-202)
	62k	Ex-*USS Wampanoag* (ATA-202) in US Coast Guard service as USCGC Comanche (WMEC-202)** underway circa 1959 US Coast Guard photo.	Robert Hurst
	62k	*USCGC Comanche* (WMEC-202)** underway in San Francisco Bay, November 1971. US Coast Guard photo.	Courtesy NAFTS, Contributed by Dick Levesque RMC USCG Ret.
USCGC Comanche (WMEC-202) Foundation
	88k	Ex-*USCGC Comanche* (WMEC-202)** at anchor north of Olympia, WA., 14 June 2008.	Joe Peterson
	240k	Volunteers work on restoring Ex-*USCGC Comanche* (WMEC-202)** in 2008.	Joe Peterson
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