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Awatobi (YTB-264)

1945-1960 


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Caption: Awatobi (YTB-264) assists Rochester (CA-124) in departing the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 20 September 1953. Dekaury (YTB-178) is at left. (NH 84584)

A Hopi Native American word meaning “high place of the bow.” The term may refer to the Bow people and was applied to a former Hopi pueblo located on a mesa in northeastern Arizona.

(YTB-264: displacement 410: length 110'0"; beam 27'0"; draft 11'4"; speed 12 knots; complement 12; armament 2 .50-caliber machine guns; class Cahto)

Awatobi (YT-264) was laid down on 27 March 1944 at Tacoma, Wash., by the J. M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp.; reclassified a big harbor tug and redesignated YTB-264 on 15 May 1944; launched on 30 September 1944; and placed in service on 1 February 1945.

Awatobi served out her entire naval career as a harbor tug in the Twelfth Naval District. She was deactivated in 1960, and her name was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in December 1960.   

Raymond A. Mann

29 July 2020

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Published: Thu Jul 30 16:11:32 EDT 2020