Auxiliary Fleet Tug (ATA)

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ATR-131 / ATA-204 Wandank

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 - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Vietnam Service Medal (3) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug:
  • Planned and authorized as Rescue Ocean Tug (ATR-131)
  • Reclassified Auxiliary Fleet Tug (ATA-204),15 May 1944
  • Laid down, 25 September 1944, at Gulfport Shipbuilding, Corp., Port Arthur, TX.
  • Launched, 9 November 1944
  • Commissioned, USS ATA-204, 18 January 1945
  • Decommissioned, 28 November 1947, at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, OR.
  • Ractivated, 17 April 1952, at Astoria
  • Recommissioned, USS Wandank (ATA-204), 3 May 1952, at Pearl Harbor
  • Decommissioned, 1 July 1971, at Guam
  • Simultaneously turned over to the Department of the Interior for service in the Trust Territories
  • Returned to US Naval custody, 22 May 1973
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1973
  • Subsequently returned to the Interior Department for serves in the Trust Territories
  • Wandank received three battle stars for her Vietnam War 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
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    Wandank 117k Wandank (ATA-204) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo         		Eli Blanco RM3, USS Wandank 1967-1968
    Wandank 44k Wandank (ATA-204) moored pierside at Naval Station Guam.
    "I think we need a bigger crane!"    		 Photo by Eli Blanco RM3, USS Wandank
    Change of Command program for 17 March 1967
    View the Wandank (ATA-204)
    DANFS History entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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