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Konoka (YTM-151)
ex
 Konoka (YTB-151) (1951 - 1962)
 Konoka (YT-151) (1941 - 1951)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - Whiskey - India
 NBWI
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal (2)
Woban Class District Harbor Tug:
  • Built by Defoe Boat & Motor Works, Bay City, MI (YN 170)
  • Laid down, 03 October 1940
  • Launched, 16 May 1941
  • Delivered, date unknown
  • Placed in service as Konoka (YT-151), 07 June 1941
  • Allocated to the Third Naval District, at New York, NY
  • Reassigned to NAS Pensacola, FL, date unknown
  • Reclassified District Harbor Tug, Large, YTB-151, 15 May 1944
  • Reclassified District Harbor Tug, Medium, YTM-151, February 1962
  • Placed out of service in 1982
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 15 December 1982
  • Disposed of by Navy sale, 1984
  • Registered to Brown Marine Service, Inc., Pensacola, FL, as Emma Brown (ON 661544), 1984
  • Resold to unknown buyer at Mobile, AL, 2001
  • Sunk in the Mobile River in 2001
  • Final disposition, raised and sold to Golding Scrap for scrapping, 2003
    Specifications:
    Displacement 218 tons (light) 325 tons (full load)
    Length 100'
    Beam 25'
    Draft 9' 7" (lim.)
    Speed 12 knots
    Complement 12
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion
    Diesel-electric
    single propeller, 1,000shp
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    Konoka (YT-151)
    YT-151
    140815108    		 130k Konoka (YT-151) on the ways before launching, 16 May 1941. Note PC-452 on the ways behind her. Dave Wright
    YT-151
    140815109    		 152k Konoka (YT-151) being launched, 16 May 1941. Note the large crowd watching from PC-452 on the ways behind her. Dave Wright
    YT-151
    140815110    		 144k Konoka (YT-151) underway on trials, 06 June 1941. Dave Wright
    YT-151
    140815102    		 64k Konoka (YT-151) underway, probably on trials on the Great Lakes.
    Photo from Bowling Green University Historical Collection of the Great Lakes    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    YT-151
    140815101    		 46k Konoka (YT-151) underway, probably on trials on the Great Lakes. (The 10 January 1951 date on the NA caption is boviously incorrect).
    National Archives photo 80-G-40448    		 Dan Treadwell
    Konoka (YTM-151)
    YT-151
    140815103    		 80k Konoka (YTM-151) alongside USS Lexington (AVT-16) at Pensacola, FL, circa 1981. Steven M. Bryan, Sr.
    YT-151
    140815104    		 34k Konoka (YTM-151) alongside USS Lexington (AVT-16) at Pensacola, FL, circa 1981. Steven M. Bryan, Sr.
    Commercial Service
    YT-151
    140815105    		 441k Ex-Konoka (YTM-151) operating as the Brown Marine Service, Inc. of Pensacola, FL, tug Emma Brown at sea about 3 miles off Destin, FL, with a tow of boxcars and a barge during the construction of an artificial reef for Escambia, Okaloosa and Walton counties, circa 1991. CSX donated the boxcars for reef construction and Brown Marine Service deployed sixteen of them (four at a time using a specially outfitted deck barge you see in the photos) about 3 miles off of Destin, Florida. They proved to be unacceptable as they deteriorated much too fast and the future use of boxcars as reef material was scrapped. Steven M. Bryan, Sr.
    YT-151
    140815106    		 1637k Emma Brown underway with a tow, location unknown, circa 1991. Steven M. Bryan, Sr.
    YT-151
    140815107    		 1646k Emma Brown underway, location unknown, circa 1991. Steven M. Bryan, Sr.
    Konoka (YT-151 / YTB-151 / YTM-151)
    DANFS history entry located at the Navy History and Heritage Command website
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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