Nacheninga (YTB-520)
1945-1967
A Native American name.
(YTB-520: displacement 237; length 100'0"; beam 25'0"; draft 11'6"; speed 12 knots; complement 17; class Hisada)
Nacheninga (YTB-520) was laid down in February 1945 at Morris Heights, N.Y., by Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 16 May 1945; and commissioned on 21 September 1945, Lt. (j.g.) Walter L. Stone, Jr., D, USNR, in command.
She operated mainly in Pearl Harbor, providing assistance in the vicinity of anchorages and piers for berthing and docking evolutions. She also provided towing services, waterfront fire protection, and served as an inner harbor patrol craft.
In the late 1940's, she was temporarily declared inactive, out of service, but resumed duties shortly thereafter. From 1951 she continued to operate in the Fourteenth Naval District, Pearl Harbor. Redesignated as a medium harbor tug, YTM-520, in 1954, she served as an activity craft at Pearl Harbor through 1967, when she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and sold.
Updated, Robert J. Cressman
7 January 2022
