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AT-103 / ATF-103 Hitchiti


USS Hitchiti (ATF-103) was transferred to Mexico
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons





Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia Clasp) - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Korean Service Medal (3)
Fourth Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (3-Taiwan Straits, 3-Quemoy-Matsu, 1-Vietnam) - Vietnam Service Medal (3) - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)
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 & Drydock Co., Charleston, S.C.
  • Launched, 29 January 1944 Redesignated Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-103), 15 May 1944
  • Commissioned USS Hitchiti (ATF-103), 27 May 1944
  • Decommissioned, 30 April 1948, at San Francisco, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Francisco Group
  • Recommissioned, 3 January 1951, at Alameda, CA.
  • Decommissioned (date unknown)
  • Transferred, cash sale, under the Security Assistance Program to Mexico, 1 September 1976, fate unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 30 September 1978
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Hitchiti received one battle star for World War II 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 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm guns
    Propulsion diesel-electric, four Alco diesel main engines driving four General Electric generators and three General Motors 3-268A auxiliary services engines, single screw
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    Hitchiti 29k Hitchiti (ATF-103) at anchor, date and place unknown. Submitted by Herbert Jordan
    to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Hitchiti 47k Hitchiti (ATF-103) underway, date and place unknown. Submitted by Rich Amundson to
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Hitchiti 208k Hitchiti (ATF-103) moored pierside, at Adak, AK, (date unknown). Tom Kermen
    View the Hitchiti (ATF-103)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
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