USS Zuni
USS Zuni (ATF-95) on Yellow Beach, Iwo Jima, 23 March 1945, assisting USS LST-944 in beaching, later became USCGC Tamaroa (WMEC-166) | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | USS Zuni |
| Builder | Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon |
| Laid down | 8 March 1943 |
| Launched | 31 July 1943 |
| Commissioned | 9 October 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 29 June 1946 |
| Stricken | 19 July 1946 |
| Identification | ATF-95 |
| Nickname(s) | “The Mighty Z” |
| Fate | Transferred to United States Coast Guard |
| United States | |
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| Commissioned | 29 June 1946 |
| Decommissioned | 1 February 1994 |
| Fate | Sunk as an artificial reef, 2017 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Navajo-class fleet tug |
| 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 & processing systems | Radar: SPN-25 (1961); no sonar. |
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USS Zuni (AT/ATF-95), a Cherokee-class fleet tugboat, formerly called Navajo class, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the Zuni, the popular name given to a tribe of Pueblo Indians indigenous to the area around the Zuni River in central New Mexico near the Arizona state line.
Zuni (AT-95) was laid down on 8 March 1943 at Portland, Oregon, by the Commercial Iron Works; launched on 31 July 1943; sponsored by Mrs. J. J. O'Donnell; and commissioned on 9 October 1943.