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AT-101 / ATF-101 Cocopa

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Oscar - Zulu

USS Cocopa (ATF-101) was transferred to Mexico and renamed ARM Seri (RE-03)
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons





Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal (2)
Fourth Row - Korean Service Medal (1) - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2-Taiwan Straits, 2-Vietnam) - Vietnam Service Medal (4)
Fifth Row - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)
Abnaki Class Fleet Ocean Tug:
  • Laid down (date unknown) at Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Charleston, S.C.
  • Launched, 5 October 1943
  • Commissioned, USS Cocopa (AT-101), 25 March 1944, LT. J. C. Hutcheson, USNR, in command
  • Reclassified Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-101), 15 May 1944
  • Decommissioned (date unknown)
  • During the Korean War Cocopa (ATF-101) participated in the following campaign:
    Korean War Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Korea, Summer-Fall 1953
    16 May to 11 June 1953
    19 to 20 June 1953
    26 June to 27 July 1953

  • During the Vietnam War Cocopa (ATF-101) participated in the following campaigns:
    Vietnam War Campaign
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Vietnam Defense
    24 August to 4 September 1965
    30 September to 28 October 1965    		 Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969
    16 to 18 July 1969
    6 to 7 August 1969
    Vietnam Counteroffensive - Phase II
    29 December 1966 to 30 January 1967
    13 February to 15 March 1967
    23 to 25 March 1967
    		 Vietnam Ceasefire
    3 July 1972
    12 to 25 July 1972
    18 to 24 August 1972
    15 September to 8 October 1972

  • Decommissioned, 30 September 1978
  • Sold under the Security Assistance Program to Mexico, 30 September 1978
  • Commissioned into the Republic of Mexico Navy as ARM Seri (RE-03)
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 30 September 1978
  • Current Disposition, active in Mexican Navy (2007)
  • Cocopa received one battle star for Korean war service and four campaign stars for Vietnam War service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,240 t.(lt) 1,589 t.(fl)
    Length 205'
    Beam 38' 6"
    Draft 15' 4"
    Speed 16.5 kts.
    Complement 85
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 DP gun mount
    two twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    two single 20 mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsiondiesel-electric, four Alco diesel main engines driving four General Electric generators and three General Motors 3-268A auxiliary services engines, single screw, 3,600shp
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    USS Cocopa (ATF-101)
    Cocopa 24k Cocopa (ATF-101) underway, circa 1952, location unknown. Submitted by Craig Rothammer
    to NAFTS
    National Association
    of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Cocopa 48k Cocopa (ATF-101) underway, date and location unknown. Submitted by Bill Doherty
    to NAFTS
    National Association
    of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Cocopa 84k Cocopa (ATF-101) departing Pearl Harbor, mid-1960. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Cocopa 31k Cocopa (ATF-101) at anchor off Danang, Vietnam, 1972. Submitted by Steve Karoby
    to NAFTS
    National Association
    of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Cocopa 62k Cocopa (ATF-101) moored pierside, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Tom Langford
    ARM Seri (RE-03)
    Cocopa 118k Ex-Cocopa (ATF-101) in Mexican service as ARM Seri (RE-03) moored pierside at Progreso, Mexico, 14 January 2007. Photo by Gene Kennedy
    Cocopa 123k ARM Seri (RE-03) moored pierside at Progreso, Mexico, 14 January 2007. Photo by Gene Kennedy
    Cocopa 104k ARM Seri (RE-03) moored pierside at Progreso, Mexico, 14 January 2007 across from the cruise ship MS Norwegian Dream Photo by Gene Kennedy
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
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