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USS Sciota (ATA-205)
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 USS ATA-205 (1945 - 1948)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - India - Lima - Romeo
 NILR
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug:
  • Planned and authorized as Rescue Ocean Tug (ATR-132)
  • Reclassified Auxiliary Fleet Tug (ATA-205),15 May 1944
  • Laid down, 12 October 1944, at Gulfport Boiler and Welding Works, Port Arthur, TX.
  • Launched, 26 November 1944
  • Commissioned, USS ATR-132, 30 January 1945
  • During World War II USS ATA-205 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
  • Decommissioned in 1945
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria
  • Named Sciota (ATA-205), 16 June 1948
  • Temporary custody to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia WA., 9 November 1960, Navy ownership retained
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1962
  • Permanent custody transferred to MARAD, 1 September 1962
  • Temporary custody to the US Navy for the SOAP Program, 27 March to 11 May 1971
  • Returned to MARAD, 11 May 1971, at the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Permanent custody returned to the US Navy, 14 August 1978
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 534 t.(lt) 835 t.(fl)
    Length 143'
    Beam 33'
    Draft 13'
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 45
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    two twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion diesel-electric engines, single screw
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    Sciota 127k USS ATA-205 moored pierside at Portland, OR., July 1946. Photo from "the Towline" the National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors magazine, 1 September 1996, courtesy Bill Platt USS ATA-205. Stan Svec
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