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Hoga (YTM-146)
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Hoga (YTB-146) (1944 - 1962)
Hoga (YT-146) (1941 - 1944)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Uniform - Echo
NAUE
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (Pearl Harbor) - American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal

Woban Class District Harbor Tug:
  • Built by Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY (YN 3107)
  • COntract awarded, 01 June 1940
  • Laid down, 25 July 1940
  • Launched, 31 December 1940
  • Placed in service as Hoga (YT-146), 22 May 1941
  • Allocated to the 14th Naval District at Naval Station Pearl Harbor
  • Hoga was present at Pearl Harbor, 07 December 1941
  • Reclassified District Harbor Tug, Large, YTB-146, 15 May 1944
  • Loaned to the City of Oakland, CA, June 1948
  • Served as a fireboat in Oakland for nearly five decades
  • Reclassified District Harbor Tug, Medium, YTM-146, February 1962
  • Placed in reserve and struck from the Naval Register, 12 July 1996
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA, December 1996
  • Departed Suisun Bay under tow for local maintenance before being towed to Little Rock, AR, to become part of the Arkansas Inland Marine Museum collection, week of 25 July 2012
  • Hoga earned one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 218 tons (lt.) 325 tons (fl)
    Length 100'
    Beam 25'
    Draft 9' 7"
    Speed 12 knots
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion
    two Diesel engines, Diesel-electric drive
    one Auxiliary Diesel engine
    single propeller, 1000shp

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    Hoga (YT/YTB/YTM-146)
    Hoga
    140814501
    473k Hoga (YT-146) right, and Montezuma (YT-145) at left, moored at Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, N.Y., soon after they were launched in December 1940.
    National Archives photo
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    Hoga
    140814602
    100k Hoga (YT-146) underway prior to World War II, date and location unknown.
    Photo from the National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors magazine "The Towline," 01 September 1996
    Stan Svec
    BB-36 Nevada
    013619
    116 Hoga (YT-146) is alongside the port bow of the bombed and torpedoed USS Nevada (BB-36) helping to fight fires on the battleship's forecastle after she was beached. The battleship is burning after being hit forward by Japanese bombs and torpedoes. Her pilothouse area is discolored by fires in that vicinity. Note channel marker buoy against Nevada's starboard side.
    National Archives photo 80-G-19940
    US Naval Historical Center
    BB-36 Nevada
    013640
    71 Hoga (YT-146) and USS Avocet (AVP-4) assist USS Nevada (BB-36) aground and burning off Waipio Point, after the end of the Japanese air raid at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.
    National Archives photo 80-G-32020
    NHHC
    BB-39 Arizona
    013940b
    60 Hoga (YT-146) is alongside USS Arizona (BB-39) sunk and burning after the Japanese attack, 7 December 1941. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb, resulting in the collapse of structure below her two forward turrets and superstructure.
    National Archives photo 80-G-32485
    Scott Dyben
    Hoga
    140814636
    109k Hoga (YT-146) moving California (BB-44) to drydock at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 09 April 1942.
    Still frame from short film "Pearl Harbor: Spring 1942" filmed by Hollywood movie director Commander John Ford (USNR)'s film crew. National Archives ID 2663369, Local ID 428-NPC-47631
    David Upton
    Hoga
    140814637
    137k Hoga (YT-146) moving California (BB-44) to drydock at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 09 April 1942.
    Still frame from short film "Pearl Harbor: Spring 1942" filmed by Hollywood movie director Commander John Ford (USNR)'s film crew. National Archives ID 2663369, Local ID 428-NPC-47631
    David Upton
    Hoga
    140814601
    56k Hoga (YT-146) (center foreground) moves into position on USS Yorktown (CV-5)'s port quarter to assist the carrier into her berth at Pearl Harbor after the Battle of Coral Sea, 27 May 1942, with her crew paraded in whites on the flight deck. After repairs, Yorktown departed three days later to take part in the Battle of Midway.The mainmast of the sunken USS Arizona (BB-39) is visible in the distance, just right of Yorktown's stern.
    National Archives photo 80-G-21931
    NHHC
    Fulton
    09361105
    113k Hoga (YT-146) and Nokomis (YT-142) assist USS Fulton (AS-11) while docking at Pearl Harbor with USS Yorktown (CV 5) survivors on board, after the Battle of Midway, 08 June 1942.
    National Archives photo 80-G-312058
    NHHC
    Hoga
    140814604
    113k Hoga (YT-146) assisting USS Montgomery (DM-17) at Pearl Harbor, 10 May 1943.
    US Navy Yard Pearl Harbor photo, courtesy Frank McHale, via National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors (NAFTS)
    Robert Hurst
    Hoga
    140814603
    88k Ex-Hoga (YT-146) moored between an unidentified tug in reserve and the Maritime Administration tug Black Hawk at the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA, date unknown.
    Photo from "Warship Boneyards", by Kit and Carolyn Bonner
    Robert Hurst
    Hoga
    140814635
    222k Ex-Hoga (YT-146) moored pierside at the old Mare Island Naval Shipyard being prepared for her voyage to Little Rock, AR, to become part of the Arkansas Inland Marine Museum collection, circa August 2012. Photo by Mike McCullough
    Hoga
    140814634
    122k Undated Associated Press newspaper article written by James O. Clifford, concerning the plight of ex-Hoga (YT-146).
    Contributed by Frank McHale the National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors (NAFTS)
    Robert Hurst


    For more photos and information about Hoga, see;
  • Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
  • National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
  • Harbor Tug City of Oakland, ex-Hoga, National Historic Landmark Study
  • Michael McDermott Photo Collection - Hoga in Reserve at the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay

  • Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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