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YT-24 Tecumseh
YTM-24

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Spanish Campaign Medal - World War I Victory Medal
Bottom Row - American Defense Service Medal - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
District Harbor Tug:
  • Built as the tug Edward Luckenbach, by John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden, N.J.
  • Launched (date unknown)
  • Delivered to her owners L. Luckenbach & Co.in 1896
  • Acquired by the Navy from L. Luckenbach & Co.in the spring of 1898
  • Commissioned USS Tecumseh at New York City, 6 April 1898, Lt. G. R. Evans in command
  • Decommissioned, 17 September 1898
  • Recommissioned in 1899
  • Decommissioned, 1 July 1911
  • Recommissioned (date unknown)
  • Sunk at her pier at the Washington Navy Yard, 22 October 1919
  • Decommissioned, 1 April 1920
  • Designated District Harbor Tug (YT-24), 17 July 1920
  • Recommissioned, sometime between July 1921 and January 1922
  • Name canceled, 5 October 1942, designated the unnamed District Harbor Tug YT-24
  • Redesignated Harbor District Tug, Medium YTM-24, 15 May 1944
  • Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register sometime between 15 April 1945 and 25 January 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 22 August 1946, for disposal
    Specifications:
    Displacement 214 t.
    Length 88' 6"
    Beam 21' 6"
    Draft 9' 3" (mean)
    Speed 11 kts.
    Complement 15
    Armament one 1-pdr, one Gatling gun
    Propulsion steam, single screw
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