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USS ATA-177

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Papa - Mike
NJPM

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

ATA-177 was transferred to Chile named Lientur (PP-3)

Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug:

Laid down, 27 April 1944, as Rescue Ocean Tug ATR-104, at Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, TX.

Launched, 5 June 1944

Reclassified Auxiliary Fleet Tug (ATA-177), 15 May 1944

Commissioned, USS ATA-177, 2 September 1944

During World War II USS ATA-177 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater

Grounded at Okinawa by "Typhoon Louise", 9 October 1945, refloated, 12 October 1945

Following World War II USS ATA-177 was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 7 October to 13 November 1945

Decommissioned, date unknown

Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown

Transferred to Chile, 29 September 1947, named Lientur (PP-3)

Redesignated (PP-60, date unknown

Decommissioned by the Chilean Navy in 1984

Final Disposition, scrapped in 1984

Specifications:
Displacement 835 t.(lt) 1,360 t.(fl)
Length 143'
Beam 33' 10"
Draft 13' 2" (limiting)
Speed 12 kts.

Armament

one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount

two single 20mm AA gun mounts

Largest Boom Capacity 5 t.

Complement

Officers 5

Enlisted 40

Fuel Capacity

Diesel 1,200 Bbls

Propulsion

two GM 12-278A Diesel-electric engines

single Fairbanks Morse Main Reduction Gear

two 60Kw 120V. D.C. Ship's Service Generators

single propeller, 1,200shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS ATA-177
	94k	USS ATA-177 underway probably near her builder's yard at Orange, TX., around the time of her delivery in September 1944. US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, photo # 19-N-113046, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com.	Mike Green
	96k	USS ATA-177 at anchor, probably photographed at the time of her return to San Francisco from the Western Pacific circa May or June 1946. US Naval History and Heritage Command, photo # NH 83823, courtesy Shipscribe.com.	Mike Green
Lientur (PP-3)
	15k	Ex-*ATA-177* in Chilean service as Lientur (PP-3) underway, date and location unknown.	Patricio Villalobos, Captain (R) Chilean Navy
	15k	Lientur (PP-3) at anchor, date and location unknown.	Patricio Villalobos, Captain (R) Chilean Navy
	78k	Lientur (PP-3) underway, date and location unknown.	Patricio Villalobos, Captain (R) Chilean Navy
093817707	153k	Lientur (PP-60) at anchor in Copper Mine, Roberts Island, 16 November 1957. Photo by Jorge Valdés Romo	Robert Hurst
093817708	299k	XII Antarctic Expedition 1957 - 1958. Lientur (PP-60) is alongside the transport *Angamos* and Lautaro (PP-62), Ex-USS ATA-122). anchored in Pendulum Cove, Foster Bay, Deception Island. January 1958. Photo by Jorge Valdés Romo	Robert Hurst
093817709	132k	Lientur (PP-60) in Rada Covadonga, (Land of O'Higgins) where the O'Higgins base of the Chilean Army is located. Photo by Jorge Valdés Romo	Robert Hurst
093817706	508k	Ex-Lientur (PP-3) under tow enroute to be scrapped in 1984	Dave Shirlaw