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YT-405 / YTB-405 / YTM-405 Cusseta

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
District Harbor Tug:
  • Laid down as YT-405, date and place unknown
  • Redesignated Harbor Tug, Large YTB-405, 15 May 1944
  • Launched, 30 May 1944
  • Delivered to the Navy in December 1944
  • Placed in service as Cusseta (YTB-405), allocated to Service Forces, Pacific Fleet
  • Placed out of service in March 1946 and laid up in the Reserve Fleet
  • Withdrawn from Reserve and reactivated in December 1950, allocated to the 11th Naval District at San Diego, CA.
  • Reclassified District Harbor Tug, Medium YTM-405 in February 1962
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 30 September 1985
  • Final Disposition, disposed of by Navy sale, date unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 260 t.
    Length 101'
    Beam unknown
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown.
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion diesel, single screw
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    Repose 108k Cusseta (YTB-405) is standings by at right to assist Repose (AH-16) in San Diego Bay, as she returns to the US from her first Korean War deployment, 11 February 1952..
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-439772, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 US Naval Historical Center
    View the Cusseta (YT-405 / YTB-405 / YTM-405)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Not Applicable to this Vessel
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    US Navy Harbor Tug Boats
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    Last Updated 26 January 2007