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AT-19 / ATO-19 Allegheny

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - World War I Victory Medal
Bottom Row - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Allegheny Class Fleet Tug:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as Huron by American Shipbuilding Company, Buffalo, N.Y.
  • Renamed Allegheny, 1 September 1917
  • Launched, 18 October 1917
  • Delivered to the Navy, 5 December 1917
  • Commissioned USS Allegheny, 18 May 1918 at Quebec
  • Reclassified Fleet Tug (AT 19), 17 July 1920
  • Sunk, 5 July 1922, after being struck and holed by Orion (AC 11)
  • Raised, 22 July 1922
  • Returned to active service in November 1922
  • Reclassified, Fleet Tug, Old (ATO-19), 15 May 1944
  • Decommissioned, 10 July 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 25 September 1946
  • Final Disposition, turned over to the Maritime Commission, 18 February 1947 and eventually sold for scrapping
    Specifications:
    Displacement 795 t.(lt) 1,000 t.(fl)
    Length 156' 8"
    Beam 30'
    Draft 14' 7"
    Speed 13 kts.
    Complement 51
    Armament two 3" and two mg
    Propulsion system unknown
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    Allegheny 90k Allegheny moored at American Shipbuilding Co., Buffalo, N.Y., 19 November 1917.
    US Navy photo # NR&L(M) 40294, from DANFS.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN
    Allegheny 116k Allegheny (AT-19), circa 1921, probably at Pensacola; note awnings shading the deckhouse just forward of the stack and over the fantail, also the bedding airing amidships, and the workmen engaged in making to the ships damaged bow.
    US Navy photo # NH 57792, from DANFS.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN
    Allegheny 183k Allegheny (AT-19) underway, 31 January 1931
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-1017235, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN
    View the Allegheny (AT-10 / ATO-10)
    DANFS history entry located at Navsource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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