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Fleet Tug No 26 / AT /ATO-26 Wandank

Algorma Class Fleet Tug: Laid down, at Buffalo, NY: Launched, (date unknown); Commissioned, USS Wandank (Fleet Tug 26), March 1920; Resignated, (AT-26), 17 July 1920; Reclassified Fleet Tug, Old (ATO-26), 15 May 1944; Decommissioned, September 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Final disposition, sold for commercial use to W A Bisso, 1947 to 1971, fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 998 t.; Length 156'8"; Beam 30'; Draft 14'7"; Speed 13.06kts; Complement. 44; Armament one machine gun; Propulsion, single screw

Size	Image Description	Source
106k	Boston Navy Yard, c. late 1920s or early 1930s. USS Constitution is on the opposite side of the pier. US Navy photo NH 43681	US Naval Historical Center
82k	c. 24 May 1939. Wandank (AT-26) at left, and Falcon (ASR-2) moored over the sunken Squalus (SS-192) during rescue operations. The McCann Rescue Chamber, which brought 33 of Squalus's crew to safety, is visiable on Falcon's after deck. US Navy Photo NH57508	US Navy Historical Center
124k	Men from the submarine rescue ship Falcon (ASR-2) working on salvage pontoons, during the effort to raise Squalus (SS-192) from the sea bottom off the New Hampshire coast in the Summer of 1939. The larger of the two tugs at right is Wandank (AT-26) US Navy Photo USN 1149021	US Naval Historical Center
94k	View taken from Falcon (ASR-2), 12 August 1939, after Squalus had been lifted off the sea bottom and was being towed to shallower water, supported by salvage pontoons. Wandank (AT-26) and a smaller tug (probably Penacook (YT-6)) are towing, while Falcon acted as restraining ship. There are groups of three pontoons each visible on the surface at the submerged submarine's bow and stern. One more pontoon was underwater at the bow and three more at the stern. US Navy Photo NH 57509	US Naval Historical Center
73k	Wandank (AT-26). c. 1920s or 1930s US Navy photo NH 83939, Courtesy, Donald M. McPherson, 1975.	US Naval Historical Center

There is no DANFS History currently available for Wankank (AT-26) at the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site, the main archive for the DANFS Online Project.

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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