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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

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USNS Narragansett (T-ATF-167)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Victor - Bravo - Kilo NVBK

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (3)
Bottom Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal (3-Op. Restore Hope, Somalia) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Iran/Indian Ocean)

Powhatan Class Fleet Ocean Tug:

Laid down, 5 May 1977, at Marinette Marine Corp., Marinette, WI.

Launched, 12 May 1979

Delivered to the Navy, 9 November 1979

Assigned to the Military Sealift Command (MSC), and placed in service as USNS Narragansett (T-ATF-167)

Placed out of service, 18 October 1999, assigned to inactive reserve

Struck from the Naval Register, 5 June 2002

Transferred, 2 August 2002, to NAVAIR for service as tow/service vessel

Leased through Naval Sea Systems Command (Supervisor of Salvage) to DonJon Marine, for commercial service

Specifications:
Displacement 1,387 t.(lt) 2,000 t.(fl)
Length 226'
Beam 42'
Draft 15' (max)
Speed 14.5 kts.

Complement

Civilian Mariners 16

Navy (Communications Unit) 4

Propulsion

two GMC EMD 20-645F7B Diesel engines (5.73 MW sustained)

two shafts, controllable reversible pitch propellers mounted in Kort nozzles, 7,200shp

bow thruster, 300hp (224KW)

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USNS Narragansett (T-ATF-167)
093916717	83k	*USNS Narragansett* (T-ATF-167)** underway, circa 1967, location unknown. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # 91145
	60k	*USNS Narragansett* (T-ATF-167)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
	184k	*USNS Narragansett* (T-ATF-167)** at anchor, Singapore, 1981. Photo by Don Meehan.	Chris Howell
	317k	Crewmen and representatives from Eastport International prepare to deploy the unmanned submersible Deep Drone, 17 September 1983, from *USNS Narragansett* (T-AF-167) as the salvage ship USS Conserver (ARS-39)** stands off nearby during the salvage operations for the downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL-007). The commercial jet was shot down by Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin Island on August 30, 1983 in the Sea of Japan. All 269 passengers and crewmen were killed. DVIC photo # DN-ST-89-02927 by PH1 Barbante, USN, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.	Bill Gonyo
	2705k	An Aerial view of *USNS Narragansett* (T-ATF-167) preparing to pull the beached and broached USS Barbour County (LST-1195)** off the beach at Silver Strand Amphibious Boat area, Coronado, CA., 26 April 1984.. Defense Imagery photo # DN-SC-85-00380 CORONADO, Calif. (26 April 1984), a US Navy photo now in the collections of Defense Imagery.mil.	Robert M. Cieri
	258k	*USNS Narragansett* (T-ATF-167) with the decommissioned battleship USS Missouri (BB-63)** in tow departs Naval Station Long Beach, CA., 3 April 1992, enroute to the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA. US Navy photo by PH1 C.T. Yebba.	Robert Hurst
	68k	*USNS Narragansett* (T-ATF-167)** moored pierside, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Robert Hurst
093916715	62k	*USNS Narragansett* (T-ATF-167)** moored pierside, date and location unknown. Photo by Captain Lawrence Dalli, courtesy Tugboatinformation.com	Tommy Trampp
US Navy Contract Service - Donjon Marine Co.
	297k	Ex-*USS Tripoli* (LPH-10) under tow by Ex-USNS Narragansett (T-ATF-167)** outbound for sea south of Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, 1 May 2008.	CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG Ret.
	1098k	Ex-*USS Tripoli* (LPH-10) under tow by Narragansett** outbound for sea south of Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, 1 May 2008.	CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG Ret.
	130k	*Narragansett* moored pierside at NAS North Island, San Diego, CA., 10 March 2008.	.
	42k	*Narragansett* moored pierside at the former U. S. Naval Shipyard, Mare Island , CA., 27 October 2008.	CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG Ret.
	141k	Ex-*USS Tripoli* (LPH-10) in the Panama Canal coming out of Gaillard Cut and heading into Gatun Lake near the town of Gamboa., 26, March 2015. Ex-Tripoli was under dead tow by Narragansett**. The Panama Canal tug acts as a rudder during transit.	Photos by Bill Fall
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	39k	*Narragansett* under way, date and location unknow.	Robert Hurst
	69k	*Narragansett* moored pierside, date and location, unknown.	Robert Hurst
	63k	*Narragansett* under way, date and location unknown.	Robert Hurst
093916716	123k	*Narragansett* moored pierside, date and location unknown. Photo by George Schneider, courtesy Tugboatinformation.com	Tommy Trampp