HMS Tattoo (J374)

HMS Tattoo was an Auk-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was laid down by Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation (Chickasaw, Alabama) on 8 June 1942 as BAM-32 and launched on 27 January 1943. She was transferred to the Royal Navy and commissioned as HMS Tattoo on 26 October 1943.

For the Australian Admiralty S class destroyer, see HMAS Tattoo.

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Tattoo
Builder: Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation, Chickasaw, Alabama
Laid down: 8 June 1942 as (BAM-32)
Launched: 27 January 1943
Completed: 26 October 1943, and transferred to the UK under Lend-Lease
Fate:
  • Returned to the US, January 1947
  • Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission and sold to Turkey
History
Turkey
Name: TCG Çarşamba (AGS-1, A-594)
Namesake: Çarşamba
Acquired: March 1947
Reclassified: survey ship
Stricken: 1985
General characteristics
Class and type: Catherine-class minesweeper
Displacement: 890 long tons (904 t)
Length: 221 ft 3 in (67.44 m)
Beam: 32 ft (9.8 m)
Draught: 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m)
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Complement: 100 officers and enlisted
Armament:

Tattoo served for part of World War II patrolling off Iceland. At one point, she returned to Britain for repairs to a fouled propeller.

She returned to the United States in 1947, sold to the Turkish Navy in March 1947 as a survey ship and renamed TCG Çarşamba (AGS-1, later A-594).[1]

She was stricken from the Naval Register in 1985.

References
  1. Moore, John, ed. (1980). Jane's Fighting Ships. London: Jane's Publishing Company. p. 459. ISBN 0-7106-0703-2.


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