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U S NAVY 4th FLEET AT RECIFE - SHIP INDEX YCK YF YFD YHB YMS YO YR YT YTB

16)YTB 192 DISTR. HARBOR TUG



Photo www.navsource.org  by Darryl Baker. The picture shows one similar tug boat, in this case YT 182  Mawkaw.


Specifications:


Dp. 260’


Length 101'


Beam 28'


Draft 11'


Speed 12 knots


Complement 10


Pessacus (YTB-192), a large harbor tug, was laid down 26 January 1942 by Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Ine., Brooklyn, N.Y.; launched 17 April; completed 30 July; and placed in service 11 August at the New York Navv Yard.


Assigned duties with Commander, Service Force, Atlantic Fleet, Pessacus operated as a tug at Norfolk, Va.; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Reykjavik, Iceland; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Julianahaab, Greenland; and Recife, Brazil.


 

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