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USS Bagaduce (ATO-21)
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 USS Bagaduce (AT-21) (1920 - 1944)
 USS Bagaduce (Fleet Tug #21) (1919 1920)


Visual Identifier/International Radio Call Signs,

Visual Identifier 1912-1932
USS Bagaduce (Fleet Tug No. 21/AT-21)
Assigned in 1919 George - Jig - Love - Baker
 GJLB
International Radio Call Sign (IRCS)
USS Bagaduce (AT-21/ATO-21)
Assigned in 1928 Negative - Affirmative - Zed - Preparatory
 NAZP
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal (with bronze star in lieu of Fleet clasp)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Bagaduce Class Fleet Tug:
  • Laid down as Ammonoosuc (Fleet Tug #21), at Ferguson Steel and Iron Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
  • Renamed Bagaduce, 24 February 1919
  • Launched, 5 April 1919
  • Commissioned USS Bagaduce (Fleet Tug #21), 18 September 1919. LTjg. Frank Mogridge, USN in command
  • Redesignated Fleet Tug (AT-21), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 20 April 1932, at Philadelphia, PA.
  • Recommissioned, 22 June 1938, at Philadelphia
  • Reclassified, Fleet Tug Old, (ATO-21), 14 May 1944
  • Decommissioned, 22 June 1946, Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 31 July 1946
  • Final Disposition, transferred to the Maritime Commission at Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., 9 January 1947, for disposal, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 908 t.(fl) 1,143 t.(fl)
    Length 156' 8"
    Beam 35' 7"
    Speed 12.8 kts (trial)
    Draft 15' 6" (lim)
    Complement
    Officers 5
    Enlisted 56
    Largest Boom Capacity 5 t
    Armament
    three single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Fuel Capacity
    NSFO 1,835 Bbls
    Propulsion
    one Allis Chalmers vertical triple-expansion steam engine
    two Babcock and Wilcox boilers, 200psi Sat°
    two turbo-drive 25Kw 120V D.C. Ships' Service Generators
    single propeller, 1,800shp
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    Bagaduce 51k USS Bagaduce (ATO-21) moored, circa 1945, location unknown. Submitted by
    J. C. Thornwall to National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
    Bagaduce
    096402102    		 222k Stern view of USS Bagaduce (ATO-21) in drydock, circa 1945-1946, probably in the San Francisco bay area.
    Photo source Grandfather of Bagaduce (real name unknown).    		 Robert Hurst
    USS Bagaduce (Fleet Tug #21 / AT-21 / ATO-21)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
    Commanding Officers
    01LTjg. Mogridge, Frank, USN18 September 1919 - 5 August 1920
    02BOSN, Kirby, Thomas Oliver, USN5 August 1920 - 22 September 1922
    03CHBOSN Wolffe, Murry, USN22 September 1922 - 14 July 1923
    04LT. Bilson, Edwin Felix, USN14 July 1923 - 14 February 1925
    05CHBOSN James, Thomas, USN14 February 1925 - 20 April 1927
    06CHBOSN Hampton, Roy Cecil, USN20 April 1927 - 14 June 1930
    07LT. Clark, John Albert, 14 June 1930 - 20 April 1932
     Decommissioned20 April 1932 - 22 June 1938
    08LT. Stevens, Ernest Evans, USN (USNA 1919)22 June 1938 - 30 June 1941
    09LTjg. Thibault, James Lorenzo, USN (USNA 1930)30 June 1941 - 15 June 1942
    10LTjg. Dowling, Cecil Ernest, USN15 June 1942 - 15 December 1942
    11ENS. Heath, Milton Alexander, USN15 December 1942 - 15 June 1943
    12LTjg. Bean, James Llewellyn, USN15 June 1943 - 20 September 1944
    13LTjg. Brown, Headley Albert, USNR20 September 1944 - 10 June 1945
    14LTjg. Hall, Cecil O., USN10 June1945 - 22 June 1946
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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