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Pokanoket (YTM-762)
ex
 Pokanoket (YTB-517) (1945 - 1966)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Delta - Charlie - Romeo
 NDCR
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top[ Row - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Bottom Row - National Defense Service Medal - Vietnam Service Medal (14) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Cholocco Class District Harbor Tug, Large:
  • Built by Commercial Iron Works, Portland OR (YN 279)
  • Laid down, 20 September 1945
  • Launched, 28 November 1945
  • Delivered and placed in service, as Pokanoket (YTB-517), 25 January 1946
  • Allocated to the Thirteenth Naval District at Seattle, WA
  • Deactived, place out of service and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group, August 1954
  • Redesignated District Harbor Tug, Medium YTM-762, 25 March 1966
  • Reactivated and placed in service, March 1967
  • During the Vietnam War Pokanoket (YTM-762) was assigned to NAVSUPPACT Danang, South Vietnam and participated in the following campaigns:
    Vietnam War Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969
    9 June to 31 October 1969
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III
    1 June 1967 to 29 January 1968     		Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970
    1 November 1969 to 30 April 1970
    Tet Counteroffensive
    30 January to 1 April 1968     		Sanctuary Counteroffensive
    1 May to 30 June 1970
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase IV
    2 April to 30 June 1968     		Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII
    1 July 1970 to 30 November 1971
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase V
    1 July to 1 November 1968     		Consolidation I
    1 July to 30 November 1971
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VI
    2 November 1968 to 22 February 1969     		Consolidation II
    1 December 1971 to 29 March 1972
    Tet 69/Counteroffensive
    23 February to 8 June 1969     		Vietnam Ceasefire Campaign
    30 March 1972 to 28 January 1973

  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1973
  • Placed out of service and transferred to the government of South Vietnam, 30 June 1972
  • Placed in Vietnamese service as HQ-9550
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 218 tons (lt) 350 tons (fl)
    Length 100'
    Beam 26'
    Draft 9' 7"
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 10
    Armament two .50 cal machine guns
    Propulsion Diesel, single screw
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    Pokanoket 29k Pokanoket (YTM-762) moored at NAVSUPPACT Danang, circa 1966.
    		 Photo by Fred Reep Jr.
    Pokanoket 72k Pokanoket (YTM-762) and Nootka YTM-771 moored at NAVSUPPACT Danang, circa 1966.
    Photo courtesy Fred Reep and National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors    		 NAFTS
    Pokanoket 189k Undated photo of Pokanoket (YTM-762) underway, probably off Danang in the 1960s.
    		 Dave Wright
    Pokanoket (YTB-517 / YTM-762)
    DANFS history entry located at the Naval History and Heritage Command website
    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

    Brown Water Navy - Tug Boats of Vietnam
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    Last Updated 01 February 2020