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Fleet Tug No 28 / AT-28 / ATO-28 Sunnadin


Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal


Algorma Class Fleet Tug:
  • Laid down, 3 December 1918, at Puget Sound Navy Yard as Katahdin
  • Renamed Sunnadin, 24 February 1919
  • Launched, 28 February 1919
  • Commissioned USS Sunnadin (Fleet Tug No. 28), 20 October 1919
  • Designated Fleet Tug (AT-28), 17 July 1920
  • Reclassified, Fleet Tug Old (ATO-28), 15 May 1944
  • Decommissioned, 4 April 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 8 May 1946
  • Final Disposition, transferred to the Maritime Commission at Mare Island, CA., for disposal, fate unknown
  • Sunnadin earned one battle star during World War II
    Specifications:
    Displacement 998 t.
    Length 156'8"
    Beam 30'
    Draft 14'7"
    Speed 13.06 kts.
    Complement 44
    Armament one machine gun
    Propulsion single screw
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    Sunnadin 30k Sunnadin (AT-28) underway, date and place unknown. Submitted by Bill Manzingo
    to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Sunnadin 36k Sunnadin (AT-28) underway, date and place unknown. Submitted by Jon Burdett
    Contributed by Don Raymond
    a Pearl Harbor Survivor aboard Sunnadin, 7 December 1941.

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