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AT-118 / ATF-118 Wenatchee


USS Wenatchee (ATF-118) was transferred to Taiwan and renamed Ta Fang (555)
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Abnaki Class Fleet Ocean Tug:
  • Laid down, 12 January 1944, as Wenatchee (AT-118) at United Engineering Co., Alameda, CA.
  • Reclassified as Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-118), 15 May 1944
  • Launched, 7 September 1944
  • Commissioned USS Wenatchee (ATF-118), 24 march 1945
  • Decommissioned, 19 March 1947, at Orange, TX.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1962
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, TX.
  • Sold, to Taiwan under the Security Assistance Program and renamed Ta Fang (555)
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Wenatchee earned one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,330 t.(lt) 1,689 t.(fl)
    Length 205'
    Beam 38' 6"
    Draft 17' (max)
    Speed 16.5 kts.
    Complement 85
    Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 40mm gun mounts, six .50 cal machine guns, two depth charge tracks
    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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    Wenatchee 62k Wenatchee (ATF-118) underway, date and place unknown. Chuck Spencer for his father Charles Edward Spencer, Cox., V-6 USNR USS Wenatchee
    Ta Fang (555)
    Wenatchee 30k ex Wenatchee (ATF-118) in Taiwanese service as Ta Fang (555). .
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