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U.S.S. SALINAN

(ATF-161)

SERVICE - TOW AND SALVAGE
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ATF-161 Deployments - Major Events

Add a ATF-161 Shellback Initiation Add a ATF-161 Deployment - Major Event
Month Year to Month Year Deployment / Event
MAR1942- Shellback Initiation - 27 MAR 1942 - Atlantic Ocean
APR1945-Keel Date: 13 APR 1945
at Charleston Ship Building & Drydock Company Charleston SC
JUL1945-Launch Date: 20 JUL 1945
NOV1945-Commissioned: 9 NOV 1945
OCT1962-OCT1962Cuban Missle Blockade
OCT1962-OCT1962Docked in New Orleans during most of the Cuban Missal Crisis.
NOV1963-NOV1963Learned of JFK's assassination underway. Very little info.
MAY1965-AUG1965Dry Dock
JAN1973-JAN1976Multiple Emergency Underway for ship broke down at sea
MAY1973-AUG1973Guantanamo Bay
SEP1974-OCT1974Caribbean
NOV1974-NOV1975Dry Dock
NOV1976-JAN1977Guantanamo Bay
JAN1977-JAN1979Guantanamo Bay

ATF-161 General Specifications

Class: Achomawi class fleet tug

Complement: 8 Officers and 68 Enlisted

Displacement: 1205 tons

Length: 205 feet

Beam: 38 feet 7 inches

Draft: 16 feet 9 in

Final Disposition: Sold under the Security Assistance Program to Venezuela 1