USS Sotoyomo (YT-9)

USS Sotoyomo In Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Washington.
History
United States
Name: USS Sotoyomo
Builder: Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California
Laid down: 2 March 1903
Launched: 20 August 1903
Christened: Sotoyomo (Harbor Tug No. 9), 21 April 1904
Commissioned: USS Sotoyomo (Harbor Tug No. 9), 1 July 1911
Struck: 26 February 1946
Honors and
awards:
World War I Victory Medal, American Defense Service Medal, Combat Action Ribbon (Attack on Pearl Harbor), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, 1 battle stars (World War II)
Fate: Scuttled off Leyte, September 1946
General characteristics
Class and type: Harbor Tug Medium
Displacement: 230 tons
Length: 97'
Beam: 21' 11"
Draft: 9' 0"
Installed power: one 13" x 32" steam engine one coal-fired single ended cylindrical boiler,
Propulsion: single propeller 450shp
Speed: 11.1 kts
Complement: 9

History

USS Sotoyomo (YT-9 - later redesignated YTM-9) a district harbor tug laid down in 1903 and struck in 1946.

Attack on Pearl Harbor

USS Sotoyomo was in the same dry dock when the USS Shaw exploded: December 7, 1941

The Sotoyomo was a harbor tug. She was in in floating dry dock (YFD-2) with USS Shaw undergoing overhaul when Pearl Harbor was attacked December 7, 1941. Explosions and fires on Shaw greatly damaged Sotoyomo which resulted in total submersion. Originally Sotoyomo was deemed a total loss, but she was later repaired, floated and rehabilitated.


Further service in World War II

Sotoyomo served throughout World War II in various locations across the Pacific.

The name Sotoyomo commemorates a part of the war-like Sioux tribe of Indians .

Awards

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