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Tamaha (YNT-12)
ex
Tamaha (YN-44) (1940 - 1943)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - India - Mike - Oscar NIMO

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Yard Net Tender:

Built by Canulette Shipbuilding Co., Slidell, LA

Completed for Card Towing Line, New York, NY, as the harbor tug Rowen Card (ON 238601), 1936

Purchased by the Navy, 25 October 1940

Converted to a net tender at New York Navy Yard

Placed in service as the Yard Net Tender Tamaha (YN-44), 17 December 1940

Sailed from New York to Pearl Habor via Panama Canal, 30 December 1940 - 25 March 1941

Allocated to the 14th Naval District, serving primarily at Midway Island

Redesignated Yard Net Tender,Tug YNT-12, 01 May 1942

Returned to San Diego, CA, in the dock of Auxiliary Repair Dry Dock USS ARD-8, 26 March 1946

Placed out of service at San Diego, CA, 12 April 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 01 May 1946

Transferred to the Maritime Commission at San Diego, for disposal, 15 January 1947

Acquired by McAllister Towing of New York, NY and renamed A. J. McAllister, 1947

Final Disposition, scuttled as artifical reef off New Jersey on Deepwater Artificial Reef (39°58.004' -74°10.721'), 25 September 2003

Specifications:
Displacement 253 tons, 50 net tons
Length 105' 5" waterline, 110' 6" overall
Beam 25' 0"
Draft 13' 9"
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Armament four .30 cal machine guns

Propulsion

one Winton 128S 6-cylinder diesel engine

single propeller, 875shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Tamaha (YN-44)
142204403	84k	Tamaha (YN-44) underway, probably shortly after conversion to naval service in December 1940 in the vicinity of the New York Navy Yard. US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, photo # 19-N-26598, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives .	Mike Green
142204401	215k	Tamaha (YN-44) underway, probably shortly after conversion to naval service in December 1940 in the vicinity on New York City. US Navy photo.	Stan Svec
Tamaha (YNT-12)
09670822	176k	Tamaha (YNT-12) along with the coastal mine sweeper *USS Cockatoo* AMc-8) and Coast Guard cutter CG-83508** in the dock of USS ARD-8 at San Diego, 26 March 1946. Photo© San Diego Sun.	Clayton E. Hiscock PTR3/c USS ARD-8
09670820	176k	USS ARD-8 moored to a buoy in San Diego Harbor, 26 March 1946 with the yard net tender, tug Tamaha (YNt-12), the coastal mine sweeper *USS Cockatoo* AMc-8) and Coast Guard cutter CG83508** in her dock. Photo© San Diego Sun.	Clayton E. Hiscock PTR3/c USS ARD-8.
Commercial Service
142204404	94k	Ex-Tamaha (YNT-12) as the McAllister Towing tugboat *A.J. McAllister*, underway in New York Harbor, date unknown. McAllister photo.	Courtesy tugboatinformation.com
142204405	60k	Ex-Tamaha (YNT-12) as the McAllister Towing tugboat *A.J. McAllister, moored alongside Timothy McAllister*, date and location unknown.	Courtesy tugboatinformation.com
142204406	74k	Ex-Tamaha (YNT-12) as the McAllister Towing tugboat *A.J. McAllister, moored outboard Joe Webber*, date and location unknown.	Courtesy tugboatinformation.com