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USS Navigator (ATA-203)
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 USS ATA-203 (1944 - 1948)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - India - Lima - Echo
 NILE
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp
Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug
  • Authorized as Rescue Ocean Tug (ATR-130)
  • Reclassified Auxiliary Fleet Tug (ATA-203), 15 May 1944
  • Laid down, 10 September 1944 at Gulfport Shipbuilding, Corp., Gulfport, MS.
  • Launched, 26 October 1944
  • Commissioned, USS ATA-203, 1 January 1945, LT. J. E. Fuld, Jr., USNR, in command
  • During World War II ATA-203 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
  • Decommissioned, 20 October 1946
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange, TX.
  • Named USS Navigator (ATA-203), 16 July 1948
  • Custody transferred to the Maritime Administration,16 July 1948, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Mobile, AL.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1962
  • Final Disposition, disposed of as a target or by test
    Specifications:
    Displacement 835 t.(fl)
    Length 143'
    Beam 33' 10"
    Draft 13' 2"
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 5
    Enlisted 40
    Largest Boom Capacity 5 t.
    Armament
    one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Fuel Capacity Diesel 1,200 Bbls
    Propulsion
    two GM 12-278A Diesel-electric engines
    single Fairbanks-Morse Main Reduction Gears
    two Diesel-drive 60Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    single propeller, 1,500shp
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    ATA-203/ATA-193 71k USS ATA-193 and USS ATA-203 moored at Naval Reserve Base, New Orleans, 30 June 1946. ATA-203 has just completed her journey towing YFD-15 from Pearl Harbor to New Orleans via San Diego and the Panama Canal Richard W. Friedrich, F/1c, LSM-467, Collection, slide number 219
    The Richard W. Friedrich Collection photo sequence of USS ATA-203's voyage from Pearl Harbor to New Orleans, via San Diego and the Panama Canal, during May and June of 1946.
    USS Navigator (ATA-203)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    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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    Last Updated 12 November 2010