Please report any broken links or trouble you might come across to the Webmaster. Please take a moment to let us know so that we can correct any problems and make your visit as enjoyable and as informative as possible.

NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive

USS Tattnall (APD-19)
ex
 USS Tattnall (DD-125) (1920 - 1943)
 USS Tattnall (Destroyer No. 125) (1919 - 1920)


International Radio Call Signs,

USS Tattnal (DD-125)
NEPS
Nan - Easy - Pup - Sail
USS Tattnal (APD-19)
NHOW
November - Hotel - Oscar - Whiskey
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
Second Row - American Defense Service Medal (with Destroyer clasp) - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (2)
Third Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal
Wickes Class Destroyer:
  • Laid down, 1 December 1917, at New York Shipbuilding Corp. Camden, N.J.
  • Launched, 5 September 1918
  • Commissioned USS Tattnall (Destroyer No. 125), 26 June 1919, CDR. Gordon Wayne Haines in command
  • Designated (DD-125), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 15 June 1922, at San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego
  • Recommissioned, 1 May 1930, CDR. A. M. R. Allen in command
  • Converted to a High-speed Transport at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C.
  • Redesignated (APD-19), 24 July 1943
  • During World War II USS Tattnall (DD-125 / APD-19) was first assigned to the American Theater as a convoy escort and later to the Europe-Africa-Middle Theater, where she was assigned to TransDiv Thirteen after conversion to an APD. When re-assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, Commander South Pacific Force and South Pacific Area she remained a unit of TransDiv Thirteen, until re-assigned to Commander Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet where she was flagship for TransDiv One Hundred, CDR. R. A. Wilhelm USNR and participated in the following campaigns:

    Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    West Coast of Italy operations - 1944
    Elba and Pianosa landings, 17 June 1944     		Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 19 April to 1 May 1945
    Invasion of southern France, 15 August 1944  

  • Decommissioned, 17 December 1945, at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA.
  • Struck From the Naval Register, 8 January 1946
  • USS Tattnall earned three battle stars for her World War II service
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 17 October 1946, to Pacific Metals and Salvage Co., Seattle WA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,060 t.
    Length 314'
    Beam 30' 6"
    Draft 8' 6"
    Speed 28.7 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 8
    Enlisted 98
    Troop Accommodations
    Officers 3
    Enlisted 144
    Boats 4 LCP(L) landing craft
    Armament
    three single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
    two single 40mm AA gun mounts
    five single 20mm AA gun mounts
    one depth charge track
    four depth charge projectors
    Fuel Capacities
    NSFO 2,380 Bbls
    Diesel 55 Bbls
    Propulsion
    two Parsons design New York Shipbuilding geared turbines
    two Thornycroft boilers 250psi Sat°
    single De Laval Main Reduction Gears
    two 60Kw 120V D.C. Ship's Service Generators
    two propellers, 24,600shp
    Click On Image
    For Full Size Image    		 Size Image Description Contributed
    By
    Tattnall
    19-N-50910    		 247k USS Tattnall (APD 19) under way off Charleston Navy Yard, S.C., 8 September 1943. Tattnall had just completed conversion from a destroyer (DD) to a fast transport (APD). She is painted in MS22 camouflage scheme. Photographed by a blimp from NAS Weeksville. These photographs were received by the Bureau of Ships in September 1943 with a letter from the Charleston Navy Yard.
    US National Archives Photo #'s 19-N-50910, 19-N-50911, 19-N-50912, 80-G-84348, 19-N-50905 and 19-N-50912, US Navy Bureau of Ships photos now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Robert Hurst, Mike Green and Rick Davis
    Tattnall
    19-N-50911    		 231k
    Tattnall
    19-N-50912    		 349k
    Tattnall
    100401904
    80-G-84348    		 194k
    Tattnall
    19-N-50905    		 215k
    Tattnall
    19-N-50906    		 201k
    Tattnall 116k War time censors have airbrushed out the two radars on USS Tattnall (APD-19)'s mast as she provides training for the joint Army/Navy Scouts & Raiders off the shores of Fort Pierce, Florida.
    US National Archives Photo #'s 80-G-44525, US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, College Park, MD.    		 Tracy White
    Tattnall 183k A small flotilla of LCPRs and LCVP approach USS Tattnall (APD-19)'s starboard side during training off the joint Army/Navy Scouts & Raiders base at Fort Pierce, FL. in December 1943. This photo shows her starboard 3"/50 gun on the midships galley house and her starboard davits, with the forward one out and the boat dropped. Note the stacks of rubber raiding craft by her aft funnel.
    US National Archives Photo #'s 80-G-44522, US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, College Park, MD.    		 Tracy White
    Tattnall 248k Scouts and Raiders personnel climb down cargo nets hanging over the side of USS Tattnall (APD-19) into waiting LCPRs during training off the joint Army/Navy Scouts & Raiders base at Fort Pierce, FL. in the middle of December, 1943
    US National Archives Photo #'s 80-G-44523, US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, College Park, MD.    		 Tracy White
    Green 131k High-speed Transports (APD) at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, in late 1944. The APDs present, in center, are: USS Greene (APD 36) -- closest to camera; USS Osmond Ingram (APD 35) -- next inboard; USS Barry (APD 29); USS Roper (APD 20); and USS Tattnall (APD 19). At the extreme right is USS Hilary P. Jones (DD-427). This photograph is dated January 1945, but was most likely taken, circa late-April-early May 1944, when Tattnall as flagship of Transport Division (TransDiv) 13, the only high-speed transport division in the Atlantic theater arrived in Oran, Algeria. Note old fort in the background.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # 80-G-302954, now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Tattnall 448k USS Tattnall (APD-19) underway in Hampton Roads, VA. off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA., 25 January 1945.
    Photos from the John Dickey collection.    		 Ed Zajkowski
    Tatnall 558k
    Tattnall
    100401912
    80-G-307295    		 279k USS Tattnall (APD-19) underway in Hampton Roads, VA. off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA., 25 January 1945.
    US National Archives photo #'s 80-G-307295 and 80-G-207290, US Navy Bureau of Ships photos now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Rick Davis
    Tattnall
    100401913
    80-G-307290    		 119k
    USS Tattnall (DD-125 / APD-19)
    Dictionary of American Navy Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LCDR. Stewart, William Henry, USNR21 August 1943 - 11 February 1944
    02LCDR. Lennox, Frank Howard, USNR11 February 1944 - 29 January 1945
    03LCDR. Habich, Benjamin Alfred, USNR29 January 1945 17 December 1945
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    "The Green Dragons" Four-stack APD destroyer-transports in World War Two
    Back To The Navsource Photo Archives Main Page Back To The Destroyer (DD) Index Back To USS Tattnall DD-125 Page Back To The Amphibious Ship Type Index Back To The High-speed Transport (APD) Photo Index
    Comments, Suggestions, E-mail Webmaster.
    This page is created and maintained by Gary P. Priolo
    All pages copyright NavSource Naval History
    Last Updated 29 March 2024