M/S Choctaw

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  ATF70 – Choctaw
  
  Navajo Class Fleet Tug

  Date Unknown:      Laid down at Charleston Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Charleston, S.C. USA.
  18. October 1942: Launched  
  21. april 1943:       Commissioned USS Choctaw (AT-70), Redesignated Fleet Ocean Tug
  11. mars 1947:      Decommissioned at Orange, TX. Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange.
  31. Oktober 1977: Struck from the Naval Register. Final Disposition, transferred, cash sale, to Colombia
                                  under the Security Assistance Program.
  1 March 1978:      Fate unknown
  
  Specifications: Displacement 1,240 t. Length 205'  Beam 38' 6" x Draft 15' 4"    Speed 16 kts.
  
  Complement 8 Officers, 68 Enlisted
  
  Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm guns
  
  Propulsion diesel-electric, four General Motors 12-278A diesel main engines driving four General Electric generators and three General Motors 3-268A auxiliary services engines, single screw, 3,600shp  
  
  The fifth Choctaw (AT-70) was launched 18 October 1942 by Charleston Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Charleston, S.C.; sponsored by Mrs. L. Cordell; commissioned 21 April 1943, Lieutenant J. D. Garland in command; and reported to the Atlantic Fleet. From 17 June 1943 to 8th.May1944,
  Choctaw served at Bermuda, where she aided assembling convoys and new ships undergoing training with tug and target-towing services. Putting to sea 8 May, she was reclassified ATF-70,15 May, and reached Oran 19.May totake Holder (DE-401) in tow for New York City, where she delivered her tow 9 June. She returned to her duties at Bermuda until 22 July, when she sailed for ports in Wales to take two LSTs in tow for New York, arriving 30 September. After overhaul at Norfolk, Choctaw sailed for tug duty at St. John's and Argentia, Newfoundland, between 20 November 1944 and 8 December, when she sailed to rendezvous with Huron (PF-19). She took the collision-damaged ship in tow for Bermuda and Charleston, and returned to Newfoundland for service between 3 January 1945 and 14 March. She then operated off the east coast and in the Caribbeanon salvage duty and in towing targets until 15 October 1946,when she arrived at Orange, Tex. There she was placed in commission in reserve 1 February 1947, and out of commission in reserve 11 March 1947.
  
  

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  Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
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