USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166)

USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166) in 1990, formerly USS Zuni (ATF-95) fleet tug (in 1943).
History
United States Navy
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
United States Coast Guard
Name	USCGC Tamaroa (WAT-166) (1946 - 1956) USCGC Tamaroa (WATF-166) (1956 - 1966) USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166)
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)
Speed	16.1 kn (29.8 km/h; 18.5 mph) maximum 8.0 kn (14.8 km/h; 9.2 mph) economical
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.
Armament	WWII: 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun 2 × twin 40 mm guns 2 × 20 mm guns 1990: 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun

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.