USS Tatoosh (YAG-1)

USS Tatoosh (YAG-1) was a wooden-hulled cargo-passenger vessel, SS Catherine D., that was acquired by the U.S. Navy.

SS Catherine D. underway in Alaskan waters.
History
United States
Name	Catherine D.
Owner	Pacific American Fisheries Inc.
Builder	Pacific American Fisheries Inc., Bellingham, Washington
Launched	27 February 1918
Completed	November 1918
Fate	Delivered to Navy at Port Winslow, Washington, 9 March 1941
USS Tatoosh (YAG-1,) moored pierside, at Kodiak, Alaska, 17 February 1943.
History
United States
Name	Tatoosh
Namesake	Tatoosh Island, Washington
Acquired	2 March 1941
Commissioned	17 June 1941
Decommissioned	1 December 1944
Renamed	Tatoosh, 10 April 1941
Stricken	11 December 1944
Identification	Hull symbol:YAG-1 Code letters:NABM
Fate	Scuttled, 29 September 1945
General characteristics
Tonnage	2,224 GRT
Length	243 ft 4 in (74.17 m)
Beam	42 ft (13 m)
Draft	21 ft (6.4 m)
Installed power	1 × Water-tube boiler 1,000 ihp (750 kW)
Propulsion	2 × 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engines 2 × screws
Complement	98
Armament	4 × .5 in (13 mm) caliber machine guns 2 × .3 in (7.6 mm) caliber machine guns

SS Catherine D., a wooden-hulled steamship built in 1918 at Bellingham, Washington, by Pacific American Fisheries, Inc., was purchased by the Navy on 27 March 1941; renamed Tatoosh (YAG-1) on 10 April 1941; placed in reduced commission on 25 April 1941; was converted to a mobile section base by the Puget Sound Navy Yard; and placed in full commission on 17 June 1941.

World War II service

Tatoosh was assigned to the 13th Naval District. Though records of her actual locations do not appear to exist, Tatoosh may well have been assigned to Alaskan waters soon after her commissioning. At any rate, she was reassigned to the 17th Naval District on 15 April 1944, the day upon which the Alaskan part of the 13th Naval District was officially reconstituted as the 17th Naval District. The ship served in the new naval district for the remainder of her career.

Decommissioning and fate

A survey board inspected the vessel in August 1944, and she was decommissioned on 1 December 1944. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 11 December 1944, and her hulk was destroyed on 29 September 1945.

References

 This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

External links

• Photo gallery of USS Tatoosh (YAG-1) at NavSource Naval History
• Pacific American Fisheries (Bellingham, WA) Archived 13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine