TF158

USS Mosopelea

mosopela.jpg (49061 bytes) USS Mosopelea ATF 158 (Contributed By Alexander Winkowski)
Mossdeck.jpg (38678 bytes) USS Mosopelea ATF 158 Fantail awash and the crew heads for high ground. Nice Photo (Contributed By Harold "Groucho" Gracia)
Naples01.jpg (38591 bytes) USS Mosopelea ATF 158 Salvage ops Dec 1964 outside break water Naples Italy.  Italians put 70 tons of ammo on 50 ton barge. When it got outside break water, it sank. We spent a month bringing it back to the surface. Standing on the Bow watching them bring in the barges (Contributed By Alexander Winkowski)
Naples02.jpg (36505 bytes) USS Mosopelea ATF 1588  Busy fantail, lots of gear to help clear the barge and re-float it  (Contributed By Alexander Winkowski)
Naples05.jpg (33876 bytes) USS Mosopelea ATF 158   5" 38 ammo and the large ones we were told were aerial depth charges.  (Contributed By Alexander Winkowski)
Naples07.jpg (46521 bytes) USS Mosopelea ATF 158   I think this is a missile container, and it is not empty. (Contributed By Alexander Winkowski)
Snipe01.jpg (28001 bytes) USS Mosopelea ATF 158  The Shaft. In the background is the 220V DC, 200KW main ships service generator also one of  4 Main Motors that drive the shaft thru a 10ft. Sun gear.     (Contributed By Alexander Winkowski)
Snipe03.jpg (23888 bytes) USS Mosopelea ATF 158   The Main switchboard  located in the After engine room.   (Contributed By Alexander Winkowski)
BLUMOSS2.jpg (36765 bytes)  USS Mosopelea ATF 158   Set of profile Blue Prints (Contributed By Alexander Winkowski)
homeport.jpg (26890 bytes)  USS Mosopelea ATF 158    Outside Norfolk Va. heading into home port circa mid 1960's(Contributed By Bruce Faber)
mass.jpg (24893 bytes)  USS Mosopelea ATF 158  Off Boston Mass circa 1965. Mine sweeper in background went aground on rocks.  Unsalvageable, and being of a wooden hull, it was burned.   (Contributed By Bruce Faber)
med.jpg (32540 bytes)  USS Mosopelea ATF 158   Near some little town in Italy circa 1964.   (Contributed By Bruce Faber)
USS Mosopelea ATF 158  Photo of Commissioning Crew (Circa July 27, 1945)   (Contributed By Bruce Froelich from photo collection of his father, Herman Norman Froelich who was an Ensign onboard the Mosopelea)
USS Mosopelea ATF 158   (Circa 1945)   (Contributed By Bruce Froelich from photo collection of his father, Herman Norman Froelich who was an Ensign onboard the Mosopelea)
USS Mosopelea ATF 158
Photo Postcard showing ATF 158 entering Valletta Harbor, Malta, in  October 1964.(  Contributed by by Rodger Dana)
USS Mosopelea ATF 158 Yipes Snipes!   circa 1964- 1967 (Contributed by Al "Windy" Winkowski)
USS Mosopelea ATF 158  (Contributed by Al "Windy" Winkowski)
   
   
 

Patches, Plaques and Memorabilia

emblem.jpg (23271 bytes) USS Mosopelea  ATF 158 Emblem Inscription reads:  USS Mosopelea ATF 158
(Contributed By Bruce Faber & Al Winkowski)

NAFTS, National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors