Allamakee (YTB-410)
1945-1959
(YTB-410: displacement 260; length l00'0"; beam 25'0"; draft 9'7" (full load); speed 12; complement 18; class Sassaba)
Allamakee (YTB-41O) was laid down on 3 June 1944 at Brooklyn, N.Y., by Ira S. Bushey & Sons; launched on 23 August 1944; delivered to the Navy on 16 April 1945; and placed in service at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn. N.Y., on 19 April 1945, Lt. (j.g.) Donald H. Geiser, D-V(G), USNR, officer-in-charge.
Allamakee's voyage to join the fleet began when she cleared New York for New Orleans, La., on 7 May 1945, then moved on from the latter port on 25 May for Coco Solo, Canal Zone. Departing the Panama Canal on 15 June, she set course for Eniwetok Atoll.
The big harbor tug was out of service, in reserve, at Hawaii by February 1947 and remained so until late in 1950. In October 1950, she was placed back in service in the Fourteenth Naval District.
After July 1954, her duty station was Midway Island at the extreme western end of the Territory of Hawaii. Allamakee served the Fourteenth Naval District, probably still at Midway, until sometime around mid-1959. The 1959 Naval Vessel Register/Ship's Data Book lists her as stricken from the Navy List in June 1959 and "Disposed of, by abandoning, burning, scuttling or sinking," but no record providing specific information concerning her ultimate fate has been found.
Updated, Robert J. Cressman
6 June 2022
