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USS Chowanoc

USS Chowanoc ATF 100 Adak 1962 (Contributed by  Dirk VanAllen)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100  Adak 1960  (Contributed by Bob Forsyth)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 Notice only one Whale boat. Note enclosure on top of the Wheelhouse! Also flying five (5) Identifier flags (Believed to be Circa 1970's) (Contributed by Rodger Dana)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 Towing the mothballed USS Philippine Sea, AVT11, (27,100 Tons) from Long Beach to San Diego (Circa October 3, 1960) (Contributed by Bob Forsyth)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 Towing USS Philippine Sea, AVT 11(mothballed)  (Circa October 3, 1960) (Contributed by Bob Forsyth)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 (Circa 1945-47) (Contributed By Jack Crowley via Rufus Whitfield and Rodger Dana)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 Sasebo, Japan (Circa 1956) (Contributed By Jim Ryer via Rodger Dana)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 Recovering Air Force plane, Alaska (Circa 1956) (Contributed By Jim Ryer via Rodger Dana)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 Photo taken from the 1964/65 Cruise Book (Contributed By Ed Siegrist,Jr, Skipper via Rodger Dana)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 Photo taken from the 1964/65 Cruise Book (Contributed By Ed Siegrist,Jr, Skipper via Rodger Dana)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 Photo taken from the 1964/65 Cruise Book (Contributed By Ed Siegrist,Jr, Skipper via Rodger Dana)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100  Photo taken from the 1964/65 Cruise Book (Contributed By Ed Siegrist,Jr, Skipper via Rodger Dana)
 USS Chowanoc  ATF 100 Names of Officers unknown, but it is believed that the Skipper at that time was Fred Ziesenhenne and XO was Bradley Dickinson (deceased), but they are not in this photo. Can anyone name these men? (Circa 1945-47) (Contributed By  Rufus Whitfield)
USS Chowanoc  ATF 100  Shipboard life. BM1 Richard(Dick) Briggs stands watch in whites. Dick says the two sailors behind him are a BM2(L) & BM3(Scully?).The BM3 working near Dick is a BM3 nicknamed "Pinches". The sailor in the far background is unidentified. (Contributed by Dick Briggs via Rodger Dana)
USS Chowanoc  ATF 100  Shipboard life.  EN3 Jim Ryer "hung out to dry" aboard the ATF 100 while on Alaska tour, summer, 1956. (Contributed by Walt Friauf)
USS Chowanoc  ATF 100  Towing Sub to Hawaii. Note Golden Gate bridge in background (Circa 1956)  (Contributed by Walt Friauf)
USS Chowanoc  ATF 100  Shipboard life. BM1 Gerald Jolley (NATFS member) on fantail of ATF 100 as she tows a Submarine from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor in the mid 1950s. (Contributed by Walt Friauf)
USS Chowanoc  ATF 100  Bow biting into the Pacific (Circa 1956) (Contributed by Walt Friauf)
USS Chowanoc  ATF 100  Shipboard life.   at Rodman Docks, Panama Canal Zone, EN3 Jim Ryer, L, and EM3 Walt Friauf, R, Chowanoc had towed the mothballed light Cruiser Topeka from San Francisco, a  28 day trip. (Circa April 1957) (Contributed by Walt Friauf)
USS Chowanoc  ATF 100  taking another bite of  the Pacific (Circa 1956) (Contributed by Walt Friauf)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 Relief vessel arriving in Adak to replace the Chowanoc. (Circa 1956) (Contributed by Walt Friauf)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 Towing Target (Circa 1956) (Contributed by Walt Friauf)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 ET3 Ray Vasquez & RM2 George Gawlick in the ATF-100 Radio Room, 1956 (Contributed by Ray Vasquez via Rodger Dana)
USS Chowanoc ATF 100 ET3 Ray Vasquez models his Chowanoc ATF-100 jacket at Adak, Alaska in 1956 (Contributed by Ray Vasquez via Rodger Dana)

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