&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:USCGC_Modoc_(WMEC-194).jpg) USCGC Modoc (WMEC-194), ex-Bagaduce
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Builder | Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, TX |
| Reclassified | Auxiliary Fleet Tug ATA-194, 15 May 1944 |
| Laid down | 7 November 1944 |
| Launched | 4 December 1944 |
| Commissioned | 14 February 1945 |
| Renamed | USS Bagaduce (ATA-194), 16 July 1948 |
| Decommissioned | 17 July 1953 |
| Stricken | 25 August 1958 |
| Nickname(s) | "Douche Bag" |
| Fate | Transferred to the US Coast Guard, 15 April 1959 |
 United States | |
| Name | USCGC Modoc |
| Acquired | 15 April 1959 |
| Commissioned | 20 April 1959 |
| Decommissioned | 31 May 1979 |
| Identification |
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| Nickname(s) | "Mud Duck" |
| Fate | Sold in 1980 sold to Marine Power & Equipment, Seattle, WA. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Sotoyomo-class auxiliary fleet tug |
| Displacement | 534 t.(lt) 835 t.(fl) |
| Length | 143 ft (44 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion | diesel-electric engines, single screw |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement | 45 |
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| Notes | Call sign:NIJB |
The auxiliary ocean tug USS ATA-194 was laid down on 7 November 1944 at Orange, Texas, by the Levingston Ship Building Co.; launched 4 December 1944; and commissioned at Orange on 14 February 1945.
After her shakedown cruise, ATA-194 sailed for the Pacific with equipment in tow. She transited the Panama Canal late in March and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 29 April 1945. After two berth shifting operations early in May 1945, the tug got underway on 23 May 1945 with a barracks ship in tow, bound for the western Pacific. Steaming by way of Eniwetok, Guam, and Saipan, ATA-194 arrived at Leyte, Philippines, on 9 July 1945. The auxiliary tug operated in the central Pacific through September, towing equipment between Kwajalein, Eniwetok and Guam.
ATA-194 arrived at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, on 14 October 1945, just before Typhoon Louise struck the anchorage on 15 October 1945 and caused severe damage among the assembled ships. As a consequence, she spent the next month aiding warships and support craft damaged in that storm. These salvage operations included retracting two Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) from the beach and an Auxiliary Mine Sweeper (YMS) from a reef. Assigned to the Philippine Sea Frontier, the tug remained in the Far East into the following year of 1946. In the spring of 1946, she supported preparations for Operation Crossroads, a two-detonation atmospheric nuclear test held in summer, 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. She returned to the west coast in late May 1946 and moored at Seattle, Washington, on 15 June 1946.
Reassigned to the 17th Naval District, ATA-194 sailed for duty in Alaskan waters later that summer of 1946. Aside from an overhaul at Puget Sound in the summer of 1947, the tug operated for the next six years out of the Alaskan ports of Kodiak, Cold Bay, Adak, Anchorage, Attu and Dutch Harbor. She was named Bagaduce on 15 July 1948. Upon arrival in Seattle on 2 July 1953, she was transferred to the 13th Naval District and ordered to prepare for assignment to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS).
Bagaduce was decommissioned on 17 July 1953 and transferred to MSTS on 31 August 1953. Assigned to the northern Pacific, she returned to the Kodiak area for another five years of towing duty. The tug was transferred to the Maritime Administration, for lay-up in its National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) at Olympia, Washington, on 25 August 1958. Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register that same day and she was later transferred to the Coast Guard.