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Photo # NH 83830:  USS ATA-217 underway in San Francisco Bay, California

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USS ATA-217 (1945-1947)
Construction begun as Tesota (YN-95, later AN-71)

USS ATA-217, a 1166-ton (light displacement) auxiliary ocean tug, was built at Slidell, Louisiana. Laid down in December 1943 as the net tender Tesota (YN-95), she was reclassified as a net laying ship and redesignated AN-71 before launching in July 1944. In August of that year she was again reclassified and renamed ATA-217 and was placed in commission as such in mid-January 1945. After transiting to the Pacific in February, the tug was based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for the rest of 1945 and into 1946. ATA-217 then went to Mare Island, California, where she was decommissioned in May 1946. She was sold in March 1947.

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Photo #: NH 83830

USS ATA-217
(1945-1947, ex-Tesota, YN-95/AN-71)

Underway in San Francisco Bay, California, while returning from service in the Pacific, circa early 1946.
Note the "homeward bound" pennant flying from her mainmast.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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