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Cusseta (YTM-405)
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 Cusseta (YTB-405) (1944 - 1962)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Yankee - Juliet
 NAYJ
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
District Harbor Tug:
  • Built by Ira S. Bushey and Sons, Brooklyn, NY
  • Laid down as YT-405, 1944
  • Redesignated Harbor Tug, Large YTB-405, 15 May 1944
  • Launched, 30 May 1944
  • Delivered to the Navy, December 1944
  • Allocated to Service Forces, Pacific Fleet
  • Placed out of service and laid up in the Reserve Fleet, March 1946
  • Withdrawn from Reserve and reactivated, allocated to the 11th Naval District at San Diego, CA, December 1950
  • Reclassified District Harbor Tug, Medium YTM-405, February 1962
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 30 September 1985
  • Final Disposition, disposed of by Navy sale, date unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 260 t.
    Length 100'
    Beam 25'
    Draft 9' 7"
    Speed unknown.
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion
    Diesel engine
    single propeller, 1,200shp
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    For Full Size Image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Repose
    09121605    		 108k Cusseta (YTB-405) is standings by at right to assist USS Repose (AH-16) in San Diego Bay, as she returns to the US from her first Korean War deployment, 11 February 1952.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-439772, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 NHHC
    Cusseta
    140840503    		 103k Cusseta (YTB-405) assisting an unidentified APA at San Diego, 1956. Dave Wright
    Cusseta
    140840501    		 270k Cusseta (YTB-405) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Stan Svec
    Cusseta
    140840502    		 56k Cusseta (YTM-405) underway near Naval Air Station San Diego, Pier Juliet. Note the stern of the First Fleet Flagship USS Providence (CLG-6). Providence usually moored at this pier.
    Courtesy Paul Smith US Navy Tug Boats. Caption courtesy Cris Hastin    		 Robert Hurst
    Cusseta YTB-405 / YTM-405)
    DANFS history entry located at the Naval History and Heritage Command website
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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    Last Updated 31 March 2026