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Photo # NH 84186:  USS Chimariko laid up in Suisun Bay, California, 11 September 1975

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USS Chimariko (ATF-154), 1945-1978

USS Chimariko, a 1,240-ton Navajo class fleet tug, was built at Charleston, South Carolina. Commissioned in late April 1945, she towed a disabled tanker off Texas in June and later in that month towed a floating drydock to Panama. In July she transited the Panama Canal to the Pacific and, in August, towed two barges to Kwajalein, in the Marshall Islands. After returning to the West Coast, Chimariko made a trans-Pacific voyage to Okinawa, where she was employed on salvage duty. In January 1946, she towed the barge Lignite (IX-162) to Hong Kong. Following further duty at Subic Bay and Guam, the tug returned to the U.S. in June. She was decommissioned at the end of October 1946 and placed in the Pacific Reserve Fleet. Chimariko was transferred to Maritime Administration custody in 1962, but was returned to the Navy in August 1976 for use as a salvage training hulk. Later employed as a target, she was sunk in deep water off Southern California on 27 August 1978.

This page features our only view of USS Chimariko (ATF-154).


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Photo #: NH 84186

USS Chimariko (ATF-154)


Laid up at the Maritime Administration Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, California, 11 September 1975.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 59KB; 505 x 765 pixels

 



PHOTOGRAPH AVAILABLE FROM ANOTHER SOURCE:
The U.S. Naval Institute (located in Annapolis, Maryland) holds at least one more photograph of USS Chimariko (ATF-154). This view was taken from off the ship's port side, while she was underway at low speed in a harbor, during or soon after World War II. Chimariko is painted dark grey overall, with small numbers ("154") on her bow, just aft of the anchor.
For more information on this photograph, and on the availability of reproductions of it, contact the U.S. Naval Institute's Photographic Library. Their address and other contact information can be readily found through the use of standard Internet search engines.


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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