USS Arapaho (AT-14) Class

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USS Arapaho (Tug No. 14) at San Diego ca. 1915-1916 with USS Raleigh in the background
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Class:        ARAPAHO (AT-14)
Design:        Navy AT-14
Displacement (tons):        ca. 280 gross, 575 norm.
Dimensions (feet):        122.5' oa, 115.0' pp x 24.0' m x 12.8' mn
Original Armament:        None
Later armaments:        2-3pdr (1918: all);
none (1920: all)
Complement:        28 (1929)
Speed (kts.):        10.8
Propulsion (HP):        800
Machinery:        Vert. triple expansion, 1 screw

Construction:

AT	Name	Ord.	Builder	Keel	Launch	Commiss.
14	ARAPAHO	30 Jun 13	Seattle Const. & DD	16 Dec 13	20 Jun 14	8 Feb 15
15	MOHAVE	30 Jun 13	Seattle Const. & DD	16 Dec 13	20 Jun 14	2 Dec 14
16	TILLAMOOK	30 Jun 13	Seattle Const. & DD	6 Jan 14	15 Aug 14	ca 1915
17	WANDO	7 Dec 14	NYd Charleston	14 Jun 15	7 Mar 16	3 Apr 17
18	CHEMUNG	21 Nov 14	NYd Norfolk	2 Oct 15	1 Apr 16	14 Mar 17

Disposition:

AT	Name	Decomm.	Strike	Disposal	Fate	MA Sale
14	ARAPAHO	6 Apr 22	22 Dec 36	5 May 37	Sold	--
15	MOHAVE	--	10 Apr 28	9 Apr 28	Sold	--
16	TILLAMOOK	14 Oct 46	30 Dec 46	10 Sep 47	MC/D	10 Sep 47
17	WANDO	3 Jul 46	30 Dec 46	28 Apr 47	MC/D	ca Nov 46
18	CHEMUNG	25 Oct 26	22 Dec 36	2 Feb 37	Sold	--

Class Notes:
All five of these tugs were purchased from current appropriations as service craft for Navy Yards and were not specifically authorized. They were transferred from the list of yard craft to the Navy Register as Tugs Nos. 14-18 on 15 Dec 15. In size they were small seagoing tugs, and the survivors were demoted to district tugs (YT) in 1936. ARAPAHO and MOHAVE were ordered to the East Coast in early 1918 to support the fleet, MOHAVE later joining the Naval Overseas Transportation Service and towing coal barges between Norfolk and New England between August and December 1918. TILLAMOOK performed her entire 33-year career at Mare Island. Three of the five proved to be extremely long lived in commercial service. The dimensions of the two ordered from Navy Yards differed from the three earlier contract built tugs whose measurements are shown here, WANDO and CHEMUNG being recorded as measuring 123.5' oa, 115.0' pp x 25.0' m, 26.7' over guards x 11.5' mn. The other published characteristics of the two groups were identical.

The names ARAPAHO, MOHAVE, and TILLAMOOK were assigned by General Order No. 97 of 9 May 14 to Tugs Nos. 14-16, and there is no indication that No. 14 previously had the name HURON as sometimes reported. This report probably refers to ALLEGHENY (AT-19), which originally did bear this name.

Ship Notes:

AT	Name	Notes
14	ARAPAHO	To YT-121 27 Feb 36. Ordered sold 24 Dec 36. Sold to A. S. Hughes Sons, Philadelphia, for $12,400. Merc. JAMES E. HUGHES 1937, DIMITRIOS (Greek) 1946, EVRIDIKI 1960, FANEROMENI 1968, scrapped 1986.
15	MOHAVE	Grounded near Nantasket, Mass., in heavy seas 13 Feb 28, found unfit for service 29 Mar 28, ordered sold 7 Apr 28, sold as hulk 9 Apr 28.
16	TILLAMOOK	To YT-122 27 Feb 36, to YTM-122 15 May 44. Sold by MC to Oakland Mfg. Co., Oakland, Cal., for $2,997. Merc. TILLAMOOK, documented 1956, still listed 1972.
17	WANDO	To YT-123 27 Feb 36, to YTB-123 15 May 44. Decomm. 18 Apr 22, recomm. 15 Mar 33. Sold by MC to Puget Sound Tug & Barge Co., Seattle, Wash., for $4,200, to buyer 28 Apr 47. Merc. WANDO (289 tons gross), documented 1951, still listed 1972.
18	CHEMUNG	Ex USS POCAHONTAS 1 Sep 17. To YT-124 27 Feb 36. Sold to Gallagher Bros. Sand & Gravel Corp., New York, for $15,638.15 (awarded 25 Jan 37). Merc. PETER C. GALLAGHER 1937 (283 tons gross), out of documentation 1942.