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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Patch at left contributed by Craig Rothhammer via NAFTS, patch at right by Mike Smolinski

USS Quapaw (ATF-110)
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USS Quapaw (AT-110) (1944)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Xray - Lima - Bravo NXLB

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4) - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Korean Service Medal (5) - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Korea, 1-Op. Frequent Wind)
Fourth Row - Vietnam Service Medal (7) - Humanitarian Service Medal (1-Frequent Wind) - Philippine Liberation Medal
Fifth Row - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)

Navajo Class Fleet Ocean Tug:

Laid down, 28 December 1942, at United Engineers and Drydock Co., Alameda, CA.

Launched, 15 May 1943

Commissioned, USS Quapaw (AT-110), 6 May 1944, LCDR. N. H. Castle in command

Reclassified as Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-110), 15 May 1944

During WWII USS Quapaw was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Western New Guinea operations Morotai landings, 16 September to 1 October 1944	Luzon operation Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 January to 21 February 1945
Leyte operation Leyte landings, 20 October 1944 to 1 January 1945	Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines Palawan Islands landings, 28 February to 5 March 1945 Mindanao Island landings - Zamboanga, 8 to 25 March 1945

During the Korean War USS Quapaw participated in the following campaigns:

**Korean War Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
First UN Counter Offensive 30 March to 21 April 1951	Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952 26 October to 20 November 1952
Communist China Spring Offensive 22 April to 25 May 1951	Third Korean Winter 17 January to 14 February 1953 13 March to 9 April 1953 12 April 1953
UN Summer-Fall Offensive 19 July to 3 August 1951	.

During the Vietnam War USS Quapaw participated in the following campaigns:

**Vietnam War Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Vietnam Counteroffensive 15 June to 30 June 1966	Tet69/Counteroffensive 2 to 4 March 1969 18 to 19 April 1969
Vietnam Counteroffensive - Phase II 1 July 1966 15 June to 1 July 1966 10 to 27 July 1966 13 to 18 September 1966	Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969 21 to 24 June 1969 8 to 10 July 1969
Tet Counteroffensive 4 to 9 February 1968 19 February to 1 April 1968	Vietnam Ceasefire 14 to 17 November 1972
Vietnam Counteroffensive - Phase IV 2 to 22 April 1968	.

Decommissioned, 30 August 1985

Struck from the Naval Register, 28 January 1992

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Last known location (as of 2008) Port Richmond, CA.

Quapaw received four battle stars for World War II service, five battle stars for the Korean War and seven 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 dual purpose gun mount

two twin 40mm AA gun mounts

two single 20mm AA gun mounts
Propulsion diesel-electric, four Alco diesel main engines driving four General Electric generators and three General Motors 3-268A auxiliary services engines, single screw

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
32k	*USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** underway, date and location unknown.	Submitted by J C & David Conner to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
67k	*USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** moored, date and location unknown.	Submitted by Tom Pyle to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
44k	*USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** underway, date and location unknown.	Marty Martinez
32k	*USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** underway, date and location unknown.	Marty Martinez
39k	*USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** underway, date and location unknown.	Marty Martinez
33k	*USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** underway, date and location unknown.	Marty Martinez
39k	*USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** underway, date and location unknown.	Submitted by Joe Siesel to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
42k	*USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** underway, date and location unknown.	Submitted by Joe Siesel to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
49k	*USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** underway, date and location unknown.	Submitted by Joe Siesel to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
214k	*USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** underway at San Diego in 1949.	Alan Owens
106k	*USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** moored to a buoy at Sasebo, Japan, date unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, December 1953	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
93k	*USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** at anchor, Sasebo, Japan, date unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, July 1957	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
227k	Ex- Nautilus (SSN-571), being towed by *USS Quapaw* (ATF-110)** in San Francisco Bay just east of the Golden Gate, 28 May 1985, on the first leg on her journey to Groton. US Navy photo.	Darryl Baker
221k	Ex- Nautilus (SSN-571) and *USS Quapaw* (ATF 110)** sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge on 28 May 1985. US Navy photo.	Darryl Baker
90k	Ex-Quapaw (ATF 110) moored inboard of ex-Moctobi (ATF-105), date unknown, Sausalito, CA. Note the bow of the old wooden hulled West Coast passenger and freight steamer *Wapama* (1915) is just visible in this photo. *Wapama* is the last of 215 passenger and freight steamers that served the West Coast. She is being restored for inclusion in the collection of the San Francisco Maritime Museum located at the foot of Hyde Street in San Francisco.	Roger Herbst
143k	Ex-Quapaw (ATF 110) moored to starboard of ex-Moctobi (ATF-110), date unknown, Sausalito, CA. The stern of *Quapaw* is just visible in this photo.	Roger Herbst
118k	Ex-Quapaw (ATF 110) and ex-Moctobi (ATF-105) moored astern of the old wooden hulled West Coast passenger and freight steamer *Wapama*, date unknown, Sausalito, CA.	Roger Herbst
85k	Ex-Quapaw (ATF 110) and ex-Moctobi (ATF-105) moored astern of the old wooden hulled West Coast passenger and freight steamer *Wapama*, date unknown, Sausalito, CA.	Roger Herbst
109k	Ex-Quapaw (ATF 110) moored astern of the old wooden hulled West Coast passenger and freight steamer *Wapama*, date unknown, Sausalito, CA.	Roger Herbst
99k	Ex-Quapaw (ATF 110) stern view, close-up, date unknown, Sausalito, CA.	Roger Herbst
138k	Ex-Quapaw (ATF 110) moored pierside at Sausalito, CA.	Roger Herbst