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STAFF REPORT USS Zuni stranded on Yellow Beach, Iwo PERFECT STORM SHIP SUNK Jima, 23 March 1945 while attempting to A famous World War Two-era assist LST-944 in beaching. ship was sunk off of New Jersey’s YSCGC Tamaroa sunk in New York Cape May coast in April to become Harbor on 14 March 1963. During the night hours, Tamaroa slipped below the part of an artificial reef. That ship, waters of the harbor when a drunk and US Coast Guard Cutter Tamaroa, disorderly crew member opened the port was part of the rescue effort side valves of Tamaroa’s dry dock. documented in the film The Perfect Tamaroa had every sea cock cut out of her, the stern tube packing was also out SS Atlantus shortly after grounding Storm. Tamaroa started out life as at the time so she quickly sank. USS HORNET (CV-8) All Yorktowns PT-565 All Elko PT’s a Navajo-class Fleet Tug laid down offshore on Sunset Beach, Cape May, “Doolittle” New Jersey, on 8 June 1926. on 8 May 1943 at the Commercial drug interdiction and fisheries Iron Works in Portland, Oregon. protection. She was the first She was donated to the Intrepid Launched on 31 July, she was USCG Cutter to arrive at the Sea-Air Museum in , USS SUMNER/ All DD/DE’s USS ST. LOUIS (CL-50) All Cruisers commissioned USS Zuni (AT-95) on sinking of the ocean liner Andrea and was noticed tied up next to the GEARING 9 October 1943. On 15 May 1944, Doria. She is perhaps most famous Intrepid in 1994 by a former crew- she was redesignated a Fleet USS Zuni (ATF-95) alongside the for a rescue described in the book man who began a campaign to re- Ocean Tug (ATF-95) and assigned crippled USS Reno (CL-96) on 5 The Perfect Storm by Sebastian November 1944 after the store her. After sever unsuccessful USS MISSOURI (BB-63) All BB’s USS ESSEX (CV-9) All CV’s to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and was hit by two torpedoes from the Junger. She rescued both the crew attempts, hefound others interested participated in the capture and Japanese submarine I-41. of the yacht Satori as well as the in her fate and formed the Zuni occupation of , the crew of a downed Air National Maritime Foundation. Islands, and . During October 1944, she received Guard helicopter. On 1 February 1994, she was The ship was purchased by the urgent orders to rendezvous with the decommissioned by the USCG. Zuni Maritime Foundation and IJN AKAGI “Pearl Harbor” KM BISMARCK USS Houston after the light cruiser had been hit by restoration began at Portsmouth, two Japanese torpedoes during an aerial blitz as an Virginia. During May 2012, the tug answer to 38’s raids on Okinawa and suffered a major engine room leak Formosa. She relieved Pawnee of the Houston and and bulkhead collapse. When this U-BOAT Type VII USS CAPITAINE GATO/BALAO-Class Sub towed her into lagoon on 27 October. Soon, happened, restoration had reached another set of urgent orders sent her to aid another 85%. The damage was too great to light cruiser, USS Reno, which had been torpedoed repair so the Zuni Foundation in the off the on turned title over to the State of New USS ENTERPRISE (CVN-65) All CVA/CVN’s Most Late Subs 3 November by the submarine I-41. Though the Jersey. The State’s EPA made cruiser nearly capsized, the ships’ companies of extensive preparation for sinking Zuni and Reno combined efforts to meet the threat USCGC Tamaroa underway during May 1990. the 74-year-old veteran by removing and the tug succeeded in towing the cruiser some interior paneling and insulation and AEGIS Cruiser USS AMERICA (CV-66) 1500-mi back to Ulithi. During the invasion of Iwo emptying and cleaning the vessel of 36˝ model custom made for Jima, she found herself stranded on Yellow Beach all fuel and fluids. Adm. Leighton Smith when a broken towline fouled her anchor and The ship was towed to the site propeller. She lost two crewmen in this incident. about 30-mi from Cape May — All DDG’s Many more She was towed to Pearl Harbor where she arrived already home to other sunken ships ships available. at the end of May. During the more than 14 weeks including the destroyer USS Arthur The largest catalog selection & website of custom & of repairs she underwent there, WWII ended. She W. Radford, minesweeper USS ready-made ships & aircraft anywhere. Catalog has over earned four Battle Stars. Gregory Poole, and the F/V 1200 models in COLOR. Specializing in CUSTOM MADE & cataloged models. Vets & active, let us make you what you served on or flew. GIANT 120-page, full-color catalog The ship was decommissioned and transferred Shearwater. The Cape May area $10.00 (refundable with order). FLYERS, SAILORS, COLLECTORS, WE TALK YOUR LANGUAGE. Layaway plans available to the Coast Guard on 29 June 1946, becoming the holds numerous shipwrecks includ- Motion Models USCGC Tamaroa (WAT-166). In 1956 she became ing what is left of the SS Atlantus — 4613University Dr. #290, Coral Springs, FL 33067 WATF-166 and was redesignated Medium Endur- one of the concrete ships built dur- www.motionmodels.com ance Cutter WMEC-166 in 1966. The bulk of her The ship at Baltimore inner harbor on 28 August 2007 prior to ing WWI to haul troops and supplies 1-800-866-3172 1-954-344-8512 (8870 FAX) USCG career was spent patrolling, working in being towed to Norfolk, Virginia. across the Atlantic to Europe. 6 SEA CLASSICS/July 2017 seaclassicsnow.com 7