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USS Tatoosh (YAG-1)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Bravo - Mike
 NABM
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
  • Built in 1918 as SS Catherine D., a wooden-hulled steamship, by Pacific American Fisheries, Inc, Bellingham, WA.
  • from 1918 to 1941 SS Catherine D. operated as a cannery tender and fish transport in Alaskan waters for Pacific American Fisheries, Inc, Bellingham, WA.
    Merchant logbooks 1918-1937 held by Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Western Washington University
    Built at Deadman’s Point, Fairhaven waterfront (now Bellingham)
    Named for Catherine Deming, grand-daughter of Pacific American Fisheries president E.B. Deming
    Passenger capacity 270
    Cargo capacity 84,000 cases of canned salmon.
  • Purchased by the Navy, 27 March 1941
  • Renamed Tatoosh (YAG-1), 10 April 1941
  • Placed in reduced commission, 25 April 1941 for conversion to a mobile section base at Puget Sound Navy Yard
  • Placed in full commission as USS Tatoosh (YAG-1), 17 June 1941, LCDR. Clifford W. Eshom, USNR, in command
  • During World War II Tatoosh served in the Alaska Territories as a tender and hospital ship in the Aleutians
  • Decommissioned, 1 December 1944
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 11 December 1944
  • Final Disposition, her hulk was destroyed, 29 September 1945
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,224 t.
    Length 243' 4"
    Beam 42'
    Draft 21'
    Speed unknown
    Complement 98
    Armament
    two .50-cal. machine guns
    four .30-cal. machine guns
    Propulsion two 3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines, 1000 ihpsteam
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    PC-784 63k USS PC-784 alongside USS Tatoosh (YAG 1) at Finger Bay, Adak, Alaska, circa1945 Harry Wilson, GM2, USN
    via Allan M. Wilson
    PC-784 69k USS PC-784 alongside USS Tatoosh (YAG 1) at Finger Bay, Adak, Alaska, circa1945 Harry Wilson, GM2, USN
    via Allan M. Wilson
    PC-784 74k USS PC-784 alongside USS Tatoosh (YAG 1) at Finger Bay, Adak, Alaska, circa1945 Harry Wilson, GM2, USN
    via Allan M. Wilson
    PC-784 76k USS PC-784 alongside USS Tatoosh (YAG 1) at Finger Bay, Adak, Alaska, circa1945 Harry Wilson, GM2, USN
    via Allan M. Wilson
    PC-784 64k USS PC-784 alongside USS Tatoosh (YAG 1) at Finger Bay, Adak, Alaska, circa1945 Harry Wilson, GM2, USN
    via Allan M. Wilson
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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    Fleet Reserve Association
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