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USS Undaunted (ATO-58)
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 USS Undaunted (AT-58) (1940 - 1944)
 USS Undaunted (YT-125) (1939 - 1943)
 Undaunted (YT-125) (1936 - 1939)
 USS Undaunted (AT-58) (1920 - 1936)
 USS Undaunted (ID# 1950) (1918 - 1920)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Romeo - Delta
 NERD
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - World War I Victory Medal (with Minesweeper clasp)
Bottom Row - American Defense Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Undaunted Class Fleet Tug:
  • Built in 1917 as the tug Undaunted at Union iron Works, San Francisco, CA.
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 14 November 1917
  • Commissioned, USS Undaunted (ID# 1950), 5 February 1918
  • Reclassified AT-58, 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned and placed in service as District Harbor Tug YT-125, 27 February 1936
  • Recommissioned USS Undaunted (YT-125), 1 May 1939
  • Decommissioned and placed in service, 30 June 1939
  • Recommissioned USS Undaunted (AT-58), 16 July 1940
  • Reclassified Fleet Tug Old, ATO-58, 15 May 1944
  • Decommissioned, 1 July 1946, at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 25 September 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 19 March 1947
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 833 t.(lim)
    Length 143'
    Beam 28'
    Draft 15' 6"
    Speed 11.5 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 5
    Enlisted 37
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion
    one Union Iron Works vertical triple-expansion steam engine
    two Union Iron Works header-type boilers, 200psi Sat°
    two 25Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    single propeller, 1,000shp
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    Commercial Service
    Undaunted 69k Undaunted underway soon after completion in 1917, probably in San Francisco Bay. Her smokestack wears the marking of her owner, the Rolph Navigation & Coal Company, of San Francisco. Undaunted was requisitioned by the Navy on 30 January 1918 and placed in commission on 5 February 1918 as USS Undaunted (ID # 1950).
    US Navy photo # NH 102341. The original print is National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    USS Undaunted (AT-58)
    Great Northern 1840k Tugs USS Undaunted (AT-58) and USS Navigator (YT-39) (inboard with her twin stacks) are moored aft of USAT Great Northern at Mare Island Navy Yard in June 1920. The two caged masts in the background belongs to either USS Georgia (BB-15) or USS Vermont (BB-20) which were in the yard's dry dock number 2.
    Photo # AG 9 USAT 86789 -6-1920.    		 Darryl Baker
    Undaunted 62k USS Undaunted (AT-58), (rear) and Undailla (YT-4), (forward) on the starboard side along with two unidentified tugs on her port side move the newly completed USS California (BB-44) out of the US Navy Yard at Mare Island, Vallejo, to the US Navy Yard at Hunters Point, San Francisco, in 1921 prior to California's commissioning. She was moved to Hunters Point for the installation of her screws and to have her bottom painted.
    US Navy photo.    		 Darryl Baker
    YSD-4 1206k USS Undaunted (AT-58) and the Seaplane Wrecking Derrick YSD-04 moored at Mare Island Navy Yard, 5 July 1922.
    US Navy photo.    		 Darryl Baker
    Undaunted 55k USS Undaunted (AT-58) in San Francisco Bay, probably off Yerba Buena Island during the 1920s or 1930s. The receiving ship Boston is partially visible at right.
    US Navy photo # NH 43686, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Undaunted 61k USS Undaunted (AT-58) alongside USS Newport News (AK-3). Probably in San Francisco Bay, circa the early 1920s. Photograph was received from the Office of Naval Intelligence, 1936.
    US Navy photo # NH 45128, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Undaunted 121k USS Undaunted (AT-58) alongside another ship, during the 1930s.
    US Navy photo # NH 65022 donated by Franklin Moran, (1967) to the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    USS Undaunted (YT-125 / AT-58 / ATO-58)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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