![]() USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166) in 1990,
formerly USS Zuni (ATF-95) fleet tug (in 1943). | |
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Name | USS Zuni (ATF-95) |
Builder | Commercial Iron Works |
Laid down | 8 March 1943 |
Launched | 31 July 1943 |
Commissioned | 9 October 1943 |
Decommissioned | 29 June 1946 |
Stricken | 19 July 1946 |
Nickname(s) | “The Mighty Z” |
Fate | Transferred to US Coast Guard |
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Commissioned | 29 June 1946 |
Decommissioned | 1 February 1994 |
Fate | Scuttled 10 May 2017, 33 nautical miles off coast of Cape May, New Jersey |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Cherokee-class tugboat |
Displacement | 1,731 long tons (1,759 t) |
Length | 205 ft 6 in (62.64 m) |
Beam | 39 ft 3.25 in (11.9698 m) |
Draft | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
Propulsion | 4 × General Motors model 12-278 diesels with diesel-electric drive: 3,010 shp (2,240 kW) |
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Range | 15,000 nmi (28,000 km; 17,000 mi) at 8 kn (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (1990) |
Complement | 10 officers, 74 enlisted (1990) |
Sensors and processing systems | Radar: SPN-25 (1961); no sonar. |
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USCGC Tamaroa (WAT/WMEC-166), originally the United States Navy Cherokee-class fleet tug USS Zuni (ATF-95), was a United States Coast Guard cutter. Following the U.S. Coast Guard custom of naming cutters in this class of ship after Native American tribes, she was named after the Tamaroa tribe of the Illiniwek tribal group.