It was reclassified USS Conestoga AT 54 in 1920 and after undergoing alterations, it was ordered to duty as a station ship in American Samoa, but disappeared on its way after departing San Francisco. After the war it was assigned to harbor tug duty at Norfolk, Virginia. Rescue Tug Boat USS ATR-24 1946 Naval Cover 1 MADE (A2658) 3.77 Buy It Now 24d 22h, 3.14 Shipping, eBay Money Back Guarantee Seller: mhcachets (14,965) 99. It carried out towing duties along the Atlantic coast and at the end of the war it was attached to Naval Base No. Navy purchased the Conestoga in September 1917 after the United States entered World War I. In early January 1943 the vessel was towed to Tulagi in the Soloman Islands where the hull was repaired and the ship spent the remainder of the war acting as a floating quarters and materials storage ship. It was originally built to tow coal barges for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. A tugboat towed the ship east to the mouth of the Tenaru River where she was beached. In image 3, where the guy is about to have a digger dropped on him, you can easily read the writing on the medals hanging on the fence. Online Image: 50KB 740 x 465 pixels : Photo : NH 84668 Naval Operating Base, Portland, Maine Aerial photograph of the waterfront, taken circa 1944-1945, with the State Street Pier in the. Collection of Chief Boatswains Mate Ralph E. Built in New York, she was commissioned in May 1941 in Norfolk, VA, and soon made her way to Pearl Harbor. USS California (BB-44) Leaving San Diego, California. Her name is translated from the Sioux word for fish. USS Hoga is a Woban class district harbor tug. The 170-foot steel tugboat, one of the largest seagoing tugboats in the period, was launched in 1903. That tugboat, docked, picture suggests the issue isnt simply conventional CA. The tugboat will take her place alongside another historic World War II boat, the submarine USS Razorback (SS 394). In October 2015, a joint NOAA and Navy mission confirmed the Conestoga's identity. The discovery process began in 2009 when a coastal survey documented a possible shipwreck near the islands. NOAA is in the midst of a multiyear effort to map roughly 300 shipwrecks off in the waters off San Francisco. Officials from the Navy and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the tug has been found about 30 miles off the coast, near the Farallon Islands.

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