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AT-155 / ATF-155 Cusabo

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Papa - Oscar - November
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 - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

USS Cusabo (ATF-155) was transferred to Ecuador, renamed BAE Los Rios (RA-01)
Abnaki Class Fleet Ocean Tug:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as Cusabo (AT-155), at Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Charleston, S.C.
  • Reclassified Fleet Ocean Tug, 15 May 1944
  • Launched, 26 February 1945
  • Commissioned USS Cusabo (ATF-155), 19 May 1945
  • Decommissioned, 3 December 1946, at Bremerton, WA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 31 March 1978
  • Transferred, cash sale, under the Security Assistance Program to Ecuador, 1 August 1978, renamed BAE Los Rios (RA-01)
  • Renamed BAE Cayambe (RA-01), date unknown
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,190 t.(lt)
    Length 205'
    Beam 38' 5"
    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 General Motors 12-278A 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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    Cusabo 44k Ex-Cusabo (ATF-155) at anchor while in Ecuadorian Naval service, circa 1966, as BAE Cayambe (RA-01), location unknown.
    Ecuadorian Navy photo    		 Robert Hurst
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