
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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