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U.S.S. COCOPA
(AT-101)SERVICE SALVAGE FIRST FINEST
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USS COCOPA (AT-101) - an Abnaki class Fleet Ocean Tug
In Commission 1944 to 1978AT-101 Deployments - Major Events
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Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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OCT | 1943 | - | Launch Date: 5 OCT 1943 | ||
MAR | 1944 | - | Commissioned: 25 MAR 1944 | ||
MAR | 1969 | - | NOV | 1969 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1978 | - | Decommissioned: 30 SEP 1978 |
AT-101 General Specifications
Class: Abnaki class Fleet Ocean Tug
Complement: 85 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 1240 tons
Length: 205 feet
Beam: 38.5 feet
Draft: 15.33 feet
Final Disposition: Sold to Mexico 30 September 1978; recommissioned as ARM Seri (RE-03).
USS COCOPA (AT-101)
Cocopa (AT-101) was launched 5 October 1943 by Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. Charleston S.C.; sponsored by Miss Z. Williams; and commissioned 25 March 1944 Lieutenant J. C. Hutcheson USNR in command. She was reclassified ATF-101 15 May 1944.
Joining the Atlantic Fleet Cocopa began an active career of service. Between 9 May 1944 and 1 April 1945 she made two passages across the Atlantic with barges in tow and one to Trinidad. She sailed then for the Pacific reaching San Francisco 8 May Seattle 14 June Pearl Harbor 3 July and Leyte 29 August. The tug remained in the Far East on occupation duty shuttling between the Philippines Shanghai Okinawa and Hong Kong until returning to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for overhaul on 25 January 1947.
From 1947 through 1960 Cocopa rotated between the west coast Hawaii and the Far East where she served seven tours of duty. In addition in 1948 and 1949 she plied Alaskan waters.
Cocopa received one battle star for Korean war service.
[Note: The above USS COCOPA (AT-101) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS COCOPA (AT-101) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]