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USS Zuni AT-95 / ATF-95
USCGC Tamaroa WAT-166 / WATF-166 / WMEC-166

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign: November - November - Golf - Romeo
USS Zuni (ATF-95) Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4) - World War II Victory Medal

USCGC Tamaroa (WAT-166 / WATF-166 / WMEC-166) Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Coast Guard Unit Commendation (3)
Second Row - Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation (4) - Navy "E" Ribbon (3) - Coast Guard Bicentennial Unit Medal
Third Row - National Defense Service Medal (3) - Humanitarian Service Medal (3) - Coast Guard Special Operations Service Ribbon
Navajo Class Fleet Tug:
  • Laid down, 8 May 1943, at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR.
  • Launched, 31 July 1943
  • Commissioned USS Zuni (AT-95), 9 October 1943, Lt. Ray E. Chance in command
  • Redesignated Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-95), 15 May 1944
  • During World War II Zuni was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Tinian capture and occupation, 24 July 1944 Luzon operation
    3d Fleet supporting operations
    Western Caroline Islands operation
    Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, Peleliu, 1 to 18 October 1944     		Iwo Jima operation
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 18 February to 23 March 1945

  • Decommissioned and transferred to the Coast Guard, 29 June 1946
  • Commissioned USCGC Tamaroa (WAT-166) (date unknown)
  • Redesignated WATF-166 in 1956
  • Redesignated Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC-166) in 1966
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 19 July 1946
  • Decommissioned by Coast Guard, 1 February 1994
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Zuni earned four battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,235 t.(lt) 1,674 t.(fl)
    Length 205'
    Beam 38' 6"
    Draft 15' 4"
    Speed 16k.5kts.
    Complement 85
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    two twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion diesel-electric, four Allis-Chalmers diesel main engines driving four Allis-Chalmers generators, two General Motors 3-268A diesel auxiliary service engines driving two 100 KW DC generators, and one GM 6-71 auxiliary generator with a 60 kW generator, single screw, 3,600shp
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    USS Zuni (ATF-95)
    Reno 113k Zuni (ATF-95 alongside the crippled Reno (CL-96), 5 November 1944, providing salvage services after Reno was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine HIJNS I-41, 3 November 1944, while operating off the Philippines.
    US Navy photo # NH 39095 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Zuni 29k Zuni (ATF-95) stranded on Yellow Beach, Iwo Jima, 23 March 1945 while attempting to assist LST-944 in beaching.
    US Navy photo.    		 The Tamaroa Maritime Foundation
    USCGC Tamaroa (WAT / WATF / WMEC-166)
    Zuni 91k ex-Zuni (ATF-95) prior to being commissioned USCGC Tamaroa (WAT-166), moored pierside, Baltimore, Md., 12 November 1946.
    Photo by The Hughes, Co., Baltimore, MD, from the collections of the US Coast Guard Historian's Office    		 Mike Green
    Zuni 65k USCGC Tamaroa (WAT-166), while on her trial run, 20 March 1947.
    USCG Photo #: CG032047-2 from the collections of the US Coast Guard Historian's Office    		 Mike Green
    Zuni 39k USCGC Tamaroa (WAT-166), underway, date and place unknown. Ken Laesser
    Zuni 78k USCGC Tamaroa (WATF-166), at anchor off New York, 10 February 1959.
    USCG Photo #: 3CGD 02105933, from the collections of the US Coast Guard Historian's Office    		 Mike Green
    Zuni 90k USCGC Tamaroa (WATF-166), sunk in New York harbor, 14 March 1963. During the night hours Tamaroa slipped below the waters of New York Harbor when a drunk and disorderly crew member opened the port side valves of Tamaroa's dry dock. Tamaroa had every sea cock cut out of her, the stern tube packing was out at the time so she sank fast.
    USCG Photo #: 3CGD 03146315, from the collections of the US Coast Guard Historian's Office    		 Mike Green
    Zuni 34k USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166), underway in heavy seas in April 1977, place unknown.
    US Coast Guard photo by PAC Dale Puckett USCG    		 US Coast Guard Historians Office
    Zuni 73k USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166), underway in August 1987.
    US Coast Guard photo.    		 US Coast Guard Historians Office
    Zuni 33k USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166), underway on International Ice Patrol in 1987.
    US Coast Guard photo.    		 US Coast Guard Historians Office
    Zuni 25k USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166), underway in May 1990.
    US Coast Guard photo.    		 US Coast Guard Historians Office
    Zuni 44k USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166), moored at a Coast Guard Yard, date unknown. Submitted by Larry Richter to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Zuni 29k USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166), underway, date and place unknown. Submitted by Harry Jaeger to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Zuni 57k USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166), prior to being towed from New Hampshire to New York City (funds provided by NAFTS) Submitted by Lenn Harten to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Zuni 37k Ex-USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166), moored at New York City, Pier 40 Hudson River Submitted by Bill Doherty to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    View the Zuni (ATF-95)
    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
    The CG History Center
    U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office - USCGC Tamaroa
    The Tamaroa Maritime Foundation
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