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USS Alamuchee (YTB 228)

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Laid down
  
3 July 1944

Struck
  
April 1960

Launched
  
12 February 1945

Weight
  
410 tons

In service
  
4 May 1945

Construction started
  
3 July 1944

Length
  
34 m

Builder
  
John H. Mathis & Company

USS Alamuchee (YTB-228)

Name
  
USS Alamuchee (YTB-228)

Namesake
  
Tributary creek to the Sucarnoochee River in Alabama

Status
  
transferred to the state of Louisiana

USS Alamuchee (YTB-228) was laid down on 3 July 1944 at Camden, New Jersey, by the Mathis Yacht Building Company; launched on 12 February 1945; and placed in service on 4 May 1945.

The large harbor tug was assigned to the 8th Naval District and spent the next 15 years operating at New Orleans, LA. Her name was struck from the Navy list in April 1960, and she was transferred to the state of Louisiana in August of that year. She was operated by the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans as a firefighting tug until 1965. The tug was sold at public auction by the Louisiana government to Mr. George W. Whiteman on 9 August 1965

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USS Alamuchee (YTB-228) Wikipedia