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Junaluska (YTM-176)
ex
 Junaluska (YTB-176) (1947 - 1962)
 USS Junaluska (YTB-176) (1944 - 1947)
 USS Junaluska (YT-176) (1941 - 1944)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - India - Victor - Delta
 NIVD
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
Allaquippa Class District Harbor Tug:
  • Built in 1940 as Gulfport hull #189 by Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works, Port Arthur, TX., for General Motors Corp.
  • Launched in 1941
  • Purchased by the US Navy, 4 June 1941, from General Motors Corp.
  • Commissioned USS Junaluska (YT-176) at Port Arthur, TX, 23 October 1941, ENS. D. A. Tufts in command
  • Assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, Naval Operating Base, Argentia, Newfoundland
  • Reclassified District Harbor Tug, Large, YTB-176, 15 May 1944
  • Decommissioned, 30 September 1947, and placed in service as Junaluska (YTB-176) at Boston, MA
  • Reclassified District Harbor Tug, Medium, YTM-176, 01 February 1962
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, disposed of by Navy sale, 01 July 1981
  • Sold to Seabulk Towing, renamed Mary Dee Sanders (ON 647228), 1981
  • Later renamed Canaveral
  • Sold to Mar-K Towing, renamed F.W. Knowles, 2009
  • Currently active, homeported Panama City, FL
    Specifications:
    Displacement 206 t.(lt.)
    Length 102' 2"
    Beam 24'
    Draft 10'
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 17
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion
    Propulsion
    General Motors EMD 567 Diesel-electric engines
    single propeller, 1,000shp
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    Junaluska 661k Junaluska (YTB-176) on stocks, ready for launching, at Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works, Port Arthur, TX. in 1941.
    Photo from the files of the Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works.    		 Jim Swank
    Junaluska 706k Junaluska (YTB-176) launching in 1941 at Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works, Port Arthur, TX.
    Photo from the files of the Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works.    		 Jim Swank
    Junaluska 123k Junaluska (YTB-176) underway with a tow, probably at Argentia, Newfoundland, date unknown.
    Photo by Robert Masi.    		 Jon Strupp
    Junaluska 87k Junaluska (YTB-176) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from the US Navy Memorial collection.    		 Stan Svec
    Junaluska 454k The U.S. Navy’s Sealab being towed by Junaluska (YTM-176) to its operational site thirty miles southwest of Bermuda, 12 July 1964.
    USN photo 330-PSA-168-64-1 by PHCS W. A. Jackman, USN    		 Dave Shirlaw
    Junaluska (YT-176 / YTB-176 / YTM-176)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Navy History and Heritage Command
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Allaquippa Class Harbor Tug schematic
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    Last Updated 20 May 2016