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Wompatuck (YO-64)
ex
 Wompatuck (YT-27) (1931 - 1938)
 USS Wompatuck (YT-27) (1920 - 1931)
 USS Wompatuck (1898 - 1920)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Spanish Campaign Medal
Second Row - Philippines Campaign Medal - World War I Victory Medal - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp)
Third Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Defense Medal
District Harbor Tug:
  • Built in 1886 as the iron-hulled screw tug Atlas, by Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington, DE.
  • Launched (date unknown)
  • Acquired by the Navy, 4 April 1898
  • Commissioned USS Wompatuck, 6 April 1898, at New York Navy Yard, LT. Charles W. Jungen in command
  • Decommissioned, 15 October 1898, at the New York Navy Yard
  • Recommissioned, 12 November 1900, at New York
  • Designated District Harbor Tug (YT-27), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 31 July1931
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 11 February 1938
  • Laid up at Cavite awaiting disposal
  • Withdrawn from the sale list, 9 July 1941 and converted to a self-propelled, diesel oil barge
  • Redesignated YO-64, 9 October 1941
  • During World War II YO-64 was assigned to Cavite Naval Station in the Philippine Islands and participated in the:
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown, she was either captured by the Japanese when they took Cavite, 2 January 1942 or scuttled by American or Filipino forces to prevent her capture
  • YO-64 was struck from the Naval Register, 21 April 1944
  • Wompatuck as YO-64 earned one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 323 t.
    Length 130'
    Beam 25' 6"
    Draft 12' (mean)
    Speed unknown
    Complement 28
    Armamentone 3-pdr., two 6-pdrs.
    Propulsion steam, single screw
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    Piscataqua 897k Wompatuck underway, date and location unknown, Dan Wilmes
    Piscataqua 80k Wompatuck at left and Piscataqua at right, at Algiers, Algeria, circa January 1901, while en route from the U.S. to the Philippines. The original print was a halftone image. Photo courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975.
    US Navy photo # NH 83867 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 Ramon Jackson
    View the Wompatuck (YT-27) / YO-64
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    No Information Available
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    US Navy Harbor Tug Boats
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