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Osceola (YT-129 / YTB-129 / YTM-129)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
District Harbor Tug:
  • Laid down (date unknown) at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C.
  • Launched, 3 March 1938
  • Commissioned USS YT-129, 1 June 1938
  • Assigned the name Osceola, 17 September 1938
  • During World War II Osceola was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:
  • Redesignated District Harbor Tug, Large YTB-129, 12 April 1944
  • Redesignated District Harbor Tug, Medium YTM-129 in 1962
  • Decommissioned (date unknown)
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 1 February 1973 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS)
    Specifications:
    Displacement 890 t.
    Length 124' 9"
    Beam 28'
    Draft 14'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion unknown
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    YFD-2 110k YFD-2 arrives at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 23 August 1940, after being towed from New Orleans, LA. It is still marked "U.S. Naval Station New Orleans, La". Osceola (YT-129) is in the right foreground, assisting. One of the other tugs is probably Sunnadin (AT-28). An unidentified destroyer seaplane tender (AVD) is tied up at the Ford Island fuel dock, in the left center. Visible in the distance, moored on the other side of Ford Island, are (from left to right): Yorktown (CV-5), two destroyers, Wright (AV-1) and two light cruisers.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-411134, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    US Navy Harbor Tug Boats
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