The FY 1967 ATF
Artist's rendering from the publicity brochure for the FY 1967 program, dated 15 June 1966
Photo No. None
Source: Shipscribe
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USNS Powhatan (T-ATF 166)
Photographed on 17 June 1980 at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., by Charles N. Dragonette. The white building behind the ship's bow is the Navy Department Museum, formerly a gun factory. The memorial submarine sail is from USS Balao (SS-285).
Photo No. NH 91875
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
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USNS Navajo (T-ATF 169)
A direct stern view taken by the builder on 6 June 1980 during trials a week before commissioning.
Photo No. None
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)
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USNS Sioux (T-ATF 171)
Photographed by her builder on 3 April 1981 during trials.
Photo No. None
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (MSC)
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USNS Apache (T-ATF 172)
Preparing in August 1982 to tow the battleship IOWA (BB-61) from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard to Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss for modernization and reactivation.
Photo No. DN-ST-83-04783
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-330)
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USNS Narragansett (T-ATF 167)
Participating on 17 September 1983 in salvage operations in the Sea of Japan for downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL-007) watched by Soviet ships including the Large Antisubmarine Ship (BPK) Petropavlosk and the Border Patrol Ship (PSKR) Imeni XXV syezda KPSS (L to R behind her). Note the special equipment on her working deck, aft. The Boeing 747 was shot down by a Soviet air defense fighter over Sakhalin Island on 30 August 1983 killing all 269 persons on board.
Photo No. DN-ST-89-02962
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-330)
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USNS Powhatan (T-ATF 166)
Moored on 5 October 1983 at the Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek, Va. Photo by Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.)
Photo No. DN-ST-86-04112
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-330)
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USNS Apache (T-ATF 172)
Delivering the destroyer Barry (DD-933) (tip of bow visible) on 15 October 1983 to the Washington Navy Yard in the Anacostia River for use as a display ship. Photo by Charles R. Haberlein (Navy Photo Curator).
Photo No. DN-ST-84-04837
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-330)
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USNS Catawba (T-ATF 168)
Towing two barges near Subic Bay on 1 August 1987 while carrying an orange target sled on deck.
Photo No. DN-ST-93-01080
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-330)
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USNS Navajo (T-ATF 169)
Helping refloat USS White Plains (AFS 4) at Guam on 1 September 1992 after Typhoon Omar on 28 August 1992 broke the AFS from her moorings and blew her across Apra Harbor, dragging her anchor until she grounded on Polaris Point.
Photo No. DN-SN-93-00087
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file)
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USNS Mohawk (T-ATF 170)
Descending the Potomac River shortly after departing the Washington Navy Yard on 25 May 2000. Photo by Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.)
Photo No. DN-SC-02-05604
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-330)
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USNS Catawba (T-ATF 168)
Sailors from the visit, board, search, and seizure team assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) conducting compliant boarding training on 19 November 2008 aboard Catawba in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
Photo No. 081119-N-XX999-050
Source: www.msc.usff.navy.mil/Press-Room/Photo-Gallery
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Commercial Tug Narragansett
In US Navy contract service with Donjon Marine Co. on 26 March 2015 towing ex-USS Tripoli (LPH-10) through the Panama Canal out of the Gaillard Cut into Gatun Lake.
Photo No. None
Source: NavSource
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USNS Apache (T-ATF 172)
Getting underway on 5 August 2016 from Virginia Beach for Little Creek to support the National Transportation Safety Board investigation of the loss of the merchant container ship El Faro. Note the vans belonging to the Navy's Superintendant of Salvage on the after deck.
Photo No. 160805-N-OH262-178
Source: www.navy.mil/Resources/Photo-Gallery, also MSC gallery
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USNS Apache (T-ATF 172)
Towing the amphibious dock landing ship ex-Fort McHenry (LSD 43) on 16 April 2021, the date on which the LSD was stricken, from the Naval Station at Mayport, Fla. to the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia.
Photo No. 210416-N-AC165-0020
Source: www.navy.mil/Resources/Photo-Gallery
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