USCG Tamaroa
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USS
Zuni was a Cherokee class tug boat laid down by Commercial
Iron Works in Portland in May 1943. She was launched five
months later and commissioned in October 1943. She was
action in the Pacific under World War Two and participated
in the operations at the Philippines and Iwo Jima where
she earned herself four battle stars. She was transferred
to the US Coast Guard in 1946 and ranemd USCG Tamaroa, and
was the first vessel to assist the cruise liner Andrea Doria in her distress in
1956. She was stricken from the ship lists in 1994 and
given as a museum ship to Intrepid
Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York, where she
served until 2016. She
was scuttled as an artificial reef southeast of Cape May
10. May 2017 and rest today on a depth of 36 to
40 meter.
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