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Photo # NH 96307:  Tug Howard Greene in the ice, circa 1917.  She became USS Howard Greene and, later, USS Catawba


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Tug Howard Greene (1917);
Later USS Howard Greene (ID # 2200) and Catawba (YT-32, later YTM-32), 1918-1946.

Howard Greene, a 230-ton steam tug, was built in 1917 at Baltimore, Maryland. Purchased by the Navy in February 1918 and commissioned as USS Howard Greene (ID # 2200), she had a long career as a district tug. In 1920, while serving at the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., she was renamed Catawba and given the hull number YT-32. The tug was based at Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, in 1922-33 and at Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, from 1933 until the end of her Navy service. Catawba was reclassified YTM-32 in May 1944. Placed out of service in August 1946, she was transferred to the Maritime Commission in December of that year and sold to private interests.

This page features our only view of the tug Howard Greene, later USS Howard Greene and USS Catawba.


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Photo #: NH 96307

Howard Greene
(U.S. Tug, 1917)

Photographed in the ice by her builder, the Baltimore Dry Docks & Shipbuilding Company.
Built as a civilian tug, she was commissioned by the Navy on 2 February 1918 as USS Howard Green (ID # 2200). She was renamed Catawba and reclassified YT-32 in July 1920. The Navy disposed of this tug through the Maritime Commission on 26 December 1946.

The original print is in National Archives' Record Group 19-LCM.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 585 pixels

 


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Page made 21 January 2001
Coding updated 18 April 2004