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USS Patapsco (AT-10)
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 USS Patapsco (Fleet Tug #10) (1911 - 1920)

1931-International Radio Call Sign:
Negative - Easy - Sail - Love
 NESL

1912-International Radio Call Sign:
Nan - Oboe - Love
NOL
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

World War I Victory Medal (with Minesweeper clasp)
Patapsco Class Fleet Tug:
  • Laid down, 12 May 1907, at the Portsmouth, N.H. Navy Yard
  • Launched, 29 June 1908
  • Placed in partial commission as USS Patapsco, 28 July 1909, for transit to her fitting out yard, Boston Navy Yard, CHBOSN Edward J. Norcott USN in command
  • Patapsco was placed in Commissioned in full, 1 July 1911, at Boston, Navy Yard, BOSN Karl Rundquist USN in command
  • Designated Fleet Tug (AT-10), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned,16 January 1925
  • Laid up in Reserve at Norfolk, VA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 4 March 1936
  • Sold for scrapping, 30 June 1936, to Boston Iron and Metal Co., Baltimore, MD.
  • Removed from Boston Iron and Metal Co., 15 June 1936, sold to US Coast Guard
  • Documented by the War Shipping Administration in 1942 as salvage tug (ON 242489)
  • Custody transferred to the Maritime Commission, 1 June 1946
  • Sold in 1947 to Tice Towing Line, New York, N.Y.
  • Sold in 1948 to Crescent Towing & Salvage Co., New Orleans, LA.
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in March 1953 to Patapsco Scrap Co., Baltimore, MD. (irony!)
    Specifications:
    Displacement 917 t.
    Length 157'1"
    Beam 30'6"
    Draft 15' 6"
    Speed 12 kts.
    Armament two 3-pounders
    Propulsion system unknown
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    Patapsco
    09200110    		 227k
    Namesake
    Patapsco - The Patapsco River mainstem is a 39-mile-long river in central Maryland which flows into the Chesapeake Bay. The river's tidal portion forms the harbor for the city of Baltimore. With its South Branch, the Patapsco forms the northern border of Howard County, Maryland. The name "Patapsco" is derived from the Algonquian pota-psk-ut, which translates to "backwater" or "tide covered with froth. (Wikipedia)
    Photo - Patapsco river, Patapsco Valley State Park, Catonsville, Baltimore, Maryland, 2004. ©Fritz Geller-Grimm
    Map - Patapsco River Watershed. ©Karl Musser    		 Tommy Trampp
    Patapsco 164k USS Patapsco (Fleet Tug #10) moored pierside Portsmouth Navy Yard, 27 July 1909.
    US National Archives, Photo #19-N-21-2-21 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com.    		 Mike Green
    Patapsco 128k USS Patapsco (Fleet Tug #10) moored pierside at Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H., 27 July 1909.
    US National Archives, RG-19-A-31. Photo # Unknown, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com.    		 Robert Hurst
    Patapsco
    094701006    		 293k USS Patapsco (Fleet Tug #10) crew showing the camara the shark they cought, circa 1916, location unknown. Susan Graben
    Patapsco 255k USS Patapsco (Fleet Tug #10) crew list and photo, circa 1918-19.
    Photo from "Sweeping the North Sea Mine Barrage" by the U.S. Navy North Sea Minesweeping Detachment    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Patapsco 69k USS Patapsco (Fleet Tug #10) left, and USS Patuxent (Fleet Tug #11) right, participate in minesweeping operations in the North Sea in 1919.
    US Navy photo NH 45255 from DANFS.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Patapsco 201k USS Patapsco (Fleet Tug #10) with an explosion close astern during a minesweeping operation in the North Sea during World War I.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo No. NH 109678    		 Mike Green
    USS Patapsco (AT-10)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01CHBOSN. Norcott, Edward Joseph, USN28 July 1909 - 13 August 1909
    02CHBOSN. Wortman, Walter Joseph, USN13 August 1909 - 28 April 1910
    03BOSN. Pennington, John Dickey, USN28 April 1910 - 1 July 1911
    04BOSN. Rundquist, Karl, USN1 July 1911 - 1 November 1913
    05BOSN. Rohange, Robert, USN1 November 1913 - 28 October 1916
    06BOSN. Cutting, Louis Henry, USN28 October 1916 - 23 November 1918
    07BOSN. Holland, Ashley DeLacy, USN23 November 1918 - 23 August 1919
    08LT. Benson, William Edwin, USN (Biography)23 August 1919 - 5 August 1920
    09BOSN. Harder, Frank, USN5 August 1920 - 1 December 1920
    10LT. Babson, Charles Bradford, USN1 December 1920 - 21 May 1922
    11BOSN. Buck, Albert Clifford, USN21 May 1922 - 16 January 1925
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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