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Updated: 7/31 with 20 items

	A list of tugs lost or damaged during WW-II from Fred Kimball.
	A list of ALL ships lost or damaged during Korea.
	A list of all ship's present at Operation Hardtack, Enewietok Proving Grounds1958
	What Lipan would look like as a superfast Coast Guard hydrofoil. Photo from CG crew member Randy Stakes.
	Gary Leurding's neat composition picture of Lipan's final days.
	USS Lipan shoulder patch. Contributed by Doug Hadland
	Lipan Underway Logbook page from Monday July 2 1956. Submitted by Gary Luerding.
	Lipan document from Tuesday July 3 1956 Submitted by Gary Luerding.
	Lipan document from Tuesday July 10 1956. Submitted by Gary Luerding.
	Lipan document from September 1964. Submitted by Wayne Spires.
	Lipan document from September 1964. Submitted by Wayne Spires.
	Lipan document from September 1964. Submitted by Wayne Spires.
	Lipan document from September 1964. Submitted by Wayne Spires.
	Shipyard Log News headlining a story about "Radioactive USS Lipan" Friday January 9, 1953. The file is a little large so you can read the type. Submitted by Sean Hughes.
	Very early formerly classified official Navy photo of the USS Navajo ATF 64 as it neared completion in 1940. Navajo was the first ship in the class. It was sunk shortly thereafter in New Hebrides. Photo submitted by Tom Anderson.
	USS Abnaki ATF 96 towing the captured German submarine U-505 June 4 1944. Submitted by Emmett Firmin
	USS Moctobi ATF 105 showing a nice roll to starboard. Contributed by Mike Turner.
	USS Abnaki fantail awash Thanksgiving day 1946. Submitted by Emmett Firmin
	The big old Target sleds. Made of heavy timbers with a steel frame supporting a canvas target. We towed it almost a mile a stern of us from the wing drums on the towing machine on a 1" (hmmm, I think?) cable.
	WILLIAMS TOW TARGET Length...27 feet, 9 inches. Beam...14 feet. Weight...4,000 pounds. This lightweight aluminum target sled was introduced in the late 1960's, replacing the much larger heavier creosote soaked timber target sled of the earlier days.
	Checkout this naval gun photo. I think its a 5 inch but? In the stop action you can see the shell which is out forward of the blast and the blast effects starting to mushroom. Not a tug photo but a great photo.
	Old WWII era Sailor's Prayer. Submitted by Ray F. Longaker
	GQ Alarm. We had one on the bridge and one in the starboard side passageway near the galley. Alarm from Craig Rothhammer's personal collection. Submitted by Rich Tetrault
	Wreck of USS Arizona on December 9th Pearl Harbor shortly after the attack in 1941. Pictured are the tugs, USS Navajo (brand new) and USS Tern. Submitted by ATF Chowanoc shipmate, Rodger Dana.
	.Battleship USS West Virginia being attended to by tugs, USS Bobolink and USS Vireo December 1941. Submitted by ATF Chowanoc shipmate, Rodger Dana.
	Adak Alaska postcard which is circled showing an ATF at the pier. Submitted by Ben Siebels.
	Hulks of the USS Moctobi ATF 105 and the USS Quapaw ATF 110 as they rested in California circa 2002. Submitted by Art Ramirez
	ATF model on display at Nafts Reunion San Diego California in 2000. Submitted by Rich Tetrault
	ATR 90 during sea trials circa WWII. These small sea-going "Rescue" tugs were purpose-made for WWII. They were made out of wood and after the war almost all were immediately sold or scrapped. Submitted by Donald Taber.
	USS Bagaduce ATO 21. J C Thornwall was on the ship from 1945 to 1946 when it was operating out of Treasure Island, CA. This was what the ATF's steam powered predecessor looked like before she was decommissioned in 1945 Submitted by J C Thornwall
	FN Stripes. Circa 1952 stripes of Lipan crew member Dick Watson EN2.
	Korean era patches. Task Force 77 and Task Force 92.
	Far East Cruise Patch. Submitted by Rich Tetrault.
	Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club. Popular Vietnam era patch submitted by Rich Tetrault.
	Wood cut of the Chief of the Lipan Indians.
	Chief Costilietos, the Lipan chief, and his daughter, Teresita photographed outside a black Seminole house in Las Moras.
	Mary Richards well known Lipan Indian.

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