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Kittaton (YTM-406)
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 Kittaton (YTB-406) (1944 - 1962)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Yankee - Lima
 NAYL
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
Sassaba Class District Harbor Tug:
  • Built by Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Brooklyn, NY
  • Laid down as YT-406, date unknown
  • Redesignated Harbor Tug, Large YTB-406, 15 May 1944
  • Launched, 30 June 1944
  • Delivered to the Navy in December 1944
  • Placed in service as Kittaton (YTB-406), Officer in Charge, ENS. T. J. Barfield in command
  • Allocated to Service Forces, Pacific Fleet, assigned to Apra, Guam, Marianas Islands, arriving in June 1945
  • Reassigned to Naval Base Sasebo, Japan, February 1947
  • Assigned to Naval Base Subic Bay, date unknown
  • Reclassified District Harbor Tug, Medium YTM-406, February 1962
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, sold by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping, 23 April 1987
    Specifications:
    Displacement 238 tons
    Length 10'
    Beam 25'
    Draft 9' 7"
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement unknown
    Armament none
    Propulsion diesel, single screw
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    Kittaton 769k Kittaton (YTB-406) underway off Naval Aviation Base, Saipan. Date unknown - caption states released 08 February 1950.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-452865, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Dave Wright
    General LeRoy Eltinge 90k Kittaton (YTB-406) and a Navy patrol craft escort General LeRoy Eltinge (T-AP 154) as she leaves Sasebo, Japan, en route to the U.S. with over 1500 Korean War Army veterans on board, 30 April 1951.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-428659, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 US Naval Historical Center
    YF-866 209k Kodiak (YF-866), YFR-888, Kittaton (YTM-406) and an unidentified tug laid up at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, circa 1981. Note that "YF-888" has been photo shopped onto the stern of Kodiak. Chris Howell, Southland Ship Stores Limited, Port of Bluff, N.Z.
    Kittaton (YT-406 / YTB-406 / YTM-406)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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    Last Updated 13 November 2015