TF 85

USS Lipan
Indian_2.jpg (41290 bytes) Lipan Indian, Mary Richards, sends her best wishes to the crew of the USS Lipan ATF 85 during WW-II .  The Lipan were an Apache warrior tribe driven from Texas to Northern Mexico about 1855.  Nineteen survivors were relocated to the Mescalero Reservation, New Mexico, in1905.  Some are now on the Oklahoma Reservation. (Photo courtesy of Smithsonian Institute Contributed By Lawrence Fitzwater & Fred Kimball)
LipfanL.jpg (21699 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85 circa WW-II. Nice view of 40mm guns on boat deck. Note extended boat deck, back to the H-Bitts. (Contributed By Lawrence Fitzwater & Fred Kimball)
Lipangr2.jpg (35025 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85 circa 1969 (Contributed By Doug Hadland)
wmec-85.jpg (22613 bytes) USCGC Lipan WMEC 85 (Contributed By Rich Tetrault)
CGLipan.jpg (17472 bytes) USCGC Lipan WMEC 85 (Contributed By C.O. Chuck Montanase)
LipCra_1.jpg (43559 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85 Shows crash damage from tanker in Puget Sound in 1970's while serving as a USNS ship. Photo #1 (Contributed By Lawrence Fitzwater & Fred Kimball)
LipCra_2.jpg (41449 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85 Shows crash damage from tanker in Puget Sound in 1970's while serving as a USNS ship. Photo #2 (Contributed By Lawrence Fitzwater & Fred Kimball)
lipan collision1.jpg (22548 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85 Another photo of the  damage after colliding with  tanker in Puget Sound in 1970's while serving as a USNS ship. Scanned from newspaper clipping. Photo #3 (Contributed By Roy Hansen)
LipKills.jpg (41496 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85  WW-II bridge wing markings indicating successful enemy engagements. (Contributed By Lawrence Fitzwater & Fred Kimball)
Bow_1.jpg (15439 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85   1st of 3-part series of bow dipping under during "moderate seas" (Contributed By Rich Tetrault)
Bow_2.jpg (12599 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85  2nd of 3-part series of bow dipping under during "moderate seas"  (Contributed By Rich Tetrault)
Bow_3.jpg (19090 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85   3rd of 3-part series of bow dipping under during "moderate seas"  (Contributed By Rich Tetrault)
NilsLip5.jpg (12545 bytes) USS Lipan ATF85 Rolling in 1952 (Contributed By Nils Pearson)
GL_Lip_2.jpg (6259 bytes) USS Lipan ATF85 Pearl Harbor circa 1956/1957 probably Alpha Piers.(Contributed By Gary Luerding)
NilsLip4.jpg (50464 bytes) USS Lipan ATF85     Lipan pulling into Dog Easy (DE) Docks in Pearl Harbor September 1952 (Submitted bu Nils Pearson)
Lipan_DD.jpg (51124 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85 In the Marine Railway at Pearl Harbor circa 1968. The entire dry dock is hauled up a set of RR tracks until the ship is up on land. (Contributed By Ben Siebels)
Tow_wire.jpg (23181 bytes) USS Lipan ATF85 Looking down the wire at a tow. Circa early 1950's (Contributed By Jim Clancy)
ATF85.jpg (21524 bytes) USS Lipan ATF85  (Contributed By Wil Swift)
lipan1.jpg (43065 bytes) USS Lipan ATF85  Circa Spring 1965 off Vietnam Coast.  Photo taken from USS Moctobi ATF 105 (Contributed By Gordon Masse)
Lipancg.jpg (19208 bytes) USCGC Lipan WMEC 85  Circa 1980's in Key West, FL (Contributed By  Larry Richter)
cgstak.jpg (32872 bytes) USCGC Lipan WMEC 85  Stern view of Lipan in her berth, taken from bridge of USCGC Ute WMEC 76, Key West, circa 1983  (Contributed By  Kevin Weiche)
BridgeL.jpg (38593 bytes) USS Lipan ATF85  The Bridge (Contributed By Joe Hilpert)
Lip2.LRpg.jpg (29989 bytes) USS Lipan ATF85 Waiting for dad to come home from Westpac circa 1968 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (note the traditional lei on the ship's bow) (Contributed By Morris Taylor)
Lipan67.jpg (44829 bytes) USS Lipan ATF85  Circa 1967 (Contributed By Joe Hilpert)
LIPAN-1.jpg (35958 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85  Configured circa the mid 70's as an MSC vessel (Contributed By Joe Siesel)
LIPAN-2.jpg (20857 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85  Configured circa the mid 70's as an MSC vessel (Contributed By Joe Siesel)
ATF-85.jpg (48396 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85 Circa 1951 (Contributed By Don Welch)
LipanDr.jpg (19273 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85 Dressed Ship circa 1951 (Contributed By Don Welch)
085lipanWMEC_1983.JPG (29801 bytes) USCGC Lipan WMEC 85 (Circa 1983) Port Everglades (Contributed By Craig Rothhammer)
Wwiiend.jpg (43735 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85 photo taken in Leyte from Lipan when the ship's anchored there were given the word that Japan had surrendered.  They all started firing off flares, rockets, whatever and blasting their ship's horns. (Contributed By Fred Kimball)
lipan_adak1959_1.jpg (23955 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85 Adak, Alaska,  Warrant Boatswain Mate, Brotherton, ship iced over. (Circa April, 1959) (Contributed By Bill Barker)
lipan_adak1959_2.jpg (23340 bytes) USS Lipan ATF 85  Nice shot of some ice buildup. Ship focsal all iced over, Warrant Officer, Brotherton in the middle, don't remember the others. (Circa April, 1959) (Contributed By Bill Barker)
lipan_adak1959_3.jpg (8343 bytes)  

USS Lipan ATF 85 Lipan at Adak. (Circa April, 1959) (Contributed By Bill Barker)
USS Lipan ATF 85 photo was taken in 1943 at Talugi. That is in the south pacific in the area of Guadacanal.  (Contributed By Lawrence Fitzwater via Rodger Dana)
USNS Lipan (T-ATF-85) MSC military detachment crew, with as much name info I can remember. I'm hopeing that someone will see it and fill in the blanks. Photo taken in the Philipines about 1972 or 3, and is all the Mildet except the one left to guard the radio room  1972-3 configured as MSC ship. Photo taken in Subic Bay.
(Contributed by Roy H. Hansen, ex-RM3)
 
USNS Lipan (T-ATF-85) 1972-3 configured as MSC ship. Photo taken in Subic Bay. (Contributed by Roy H. Hansen, ex-RM3)
 

Patches, Plaques and Memorabilia
PLAQUE_small.JPG (1903 bytes) USS LIPAN ATF 85 Plaque
With more Lipan items

NAFTS, National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors