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November-Xray-Alpha-Oscar
Contributed by RM1 Tom Wagner
1960 -1963
Abnaki Class Fleet Ocean Tug: Laid
down, 6 March 1943 as Fleet Tug (AT-112, at United Engineers and
Drydock CO., Alameda, CA. Launched, 24 July 1943: Reclassified Fleet
Ocean Tug (ATF-112), 15 May 1944: Commissionede USS Seranno (ATF-112), 22 September
1944. During World War II Serrano was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific
theater and particapated in the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign:
Decommissioned, 31 May 1950, at San Francisco, CA; Laid up in the
Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Francisco Group: Reactivated,
reclassified and converted to a Survey Ship in early 1960;
Recommissioned USS Seranno (AGS-24), 30
June 1960, at San Diego, CA; Decommissioned, 2 January 1970, Stuck from
the Naval Register, 2 January 1970; Final disposition, sold for
scrapping; 2 November 1971, to Tai-Kian Industry, Taiwan, Formosa.