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ATA-174 (Wateree) Class: Photographs

These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive.

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USS ATA-177

Probably photographed near her builder's yard around the time of her delivery in September 1944.

Photo No. 19-N-113046
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM

 
USS ATA-229

Incomplete at her builder's yard around the time of her cancellation in August 1945.
The hull number was added when the photo was developed. She was completed in 1953 as a merchant tug.

Photo No. Unknown
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM

 
USS ATA-219

At the yard of her builder, Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, Texas, on 24 October 1945.
The tug is fully fitted out but was neither transferred to the Soviets as Lend Lease as initially intended nor commissioned in the U.S. Navy.

Photo No. 19-N-111745
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM

 
USS ATA-180

Near the Mare Island Navy Yard on 15 March 1946.

Photo No. 19-N-116735
Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM

 
USS ATA-177

Probably photographed at the time of her return to San Francisco from the Western Pacific circa May or June 1946.

Photo No. NH 83823
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

 
USS ATA-206

Probably photographed at the time of her return to San Francisco from the Western Pacific circa mid-1946.

Photo No. NH 83828
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

 
USNS Bagaduce (T-ATA-194)

Approaching Midway Island on 16 November 1956 with the aircraft transportation lighters YCV-17 and YCV-12 in tow. Photographed by Naval Station Midway.

Photo No. Unknown
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)

 
USS Mahopac (ATA-196)

Underway on 11 April 1961 in Tokyo Bay near Yokosuka Harbor.

Photo No. USN 1055783
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USS Keywadin (ATA-213)

Underway on 24 March 1964 off South Annex, Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston, Mass.

Photo No. USN 1115590
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

 
USS Tillamook (ATA-192)

Underway on 2 August 1965 from Yokosuka Naval Shipyard, Tokyo Bay, Japan.

Photo No. USN 1112850
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USS Samoset (ATA-190)

Towing a target on 27 June 1967 during operations off the Virginia Capes.

Photo No. KN 15675
Source: Shipscribe

 
USS Umpqua (ATA-209)

Photographed circa the late 1960s or early 1970s.

Photo No. Unknown
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (UA-164)

 
M.V. Allegheny (ATA-209)

Docking in Detroit, Mich., circa 15 April 1969.
She was scheduled to become a floating classroom for Northwestern Michigan College.

Photo No. None
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