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Contributed by Don Becke via NAFTS

USS Catawba (ATA-210)
ex
 USS ATA-210 (1945 - 1948)


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


Precedence of awards is from left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic -Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal

USS Catawba was transferred to Argentina and renamed ARA Comodoro Somellera (A10)
Maricopa Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as ATR-137 by Gulfport Boiler and Welding Works, Port Arthur, TX., under a Maritime Commission contract
  • Reclassified ATA-210, 15 May 1944
  • Launched, 15 February 1945
  • Commissioned, USS ATA-210, 18 April 1945, LTjg. R. W. Standart, USNR, in command
  • Named, USS Catawba (ATA-210), 16 January 1948
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 February 1975
  • Sold, 1 October 1975, to Argentina under the Security Assistance Program and renamed ARA Comodoro Somellera (A10)
  • Final Disposition, sunk in 1998
    Specifications:
    Displacement 835 t.(fl)
    Length 143'
    Beam 34'
    Draft 15'
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 45
    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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    USS Catawba (ATA-210)
    Catawba 41k USS Catawba (ATA-210 underway, date and location unknown. Submitted by Don Becke to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Catawba 74k USS Catawba (ATA-210 underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "NAVSEA Journal."    		 Bob Bush
    Catawba 214k USS Catawba (ATA-210 underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 David Buell
    ARA Comodoro Somellera (A10)
    Catawba 56k Ex-USS Catawba (ATA-210 in Argentine naval service as ARA Comodoro Somellera (A10) underway, date and location unknown.
    Photo courtesy of Ignacio Amendolara and National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors.    		 Robert Hurst
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