Weehawken III (YTB-776)
1965-2001
A township in Hudson County, N.J., seven miles northeast of Jersey City. The name was originally an Algonquin Native American term and later changed by folk-usage to a pseudo-Dutch form. Its exact meaning is unclear, but variously translated as "place of gulls," "rocks that look like trees," "maize land," "at the end" (of the Palisades) and "field lying along the Hudson." Weehawken was the site of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr on 11 July 1804.
III
(YTB-776: displacement 356 (full load); length 109'0”; beam 31'0”; draft 14'0”; speed 12.0 knots; complement 12; class Natick)
The third Weehawken (YTB-776) was laid down in August 1964 at Marinette, Wis., by the Marinette Marine Corp.; launched on 8 June 1965; delivered to the Ninth Naval District in July 1965; and placed in service in the Fourteenth Naval District during November 1965.
Weehawken has spent her entire Navy career serving the Fourteenth Naval District which is comprised of the Hawaiian Islands and surrounding smaller islets. She has conducted routine towing operations between those islands and has rendered assistance to ships entering and clearing Pearl Harbor.
Taken out of service, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 January 2001, ex-Weehawken was “disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise” on 24 April 2003.
Updated, Robert J. Cressman
23 January 2024
