USS Cherokee (AT 66)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Fleet tug
Class	Navajo
Pennant	AT 66
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.)
Ordered	15 Aug 1938
Laid down
Launched	10 Nov 1939
Commissioned	26 Apr 1940
End service	29 Jun 1946
History	Redesignated fleet ocean tug (ATF-66) on 15 May 1944 Decommissioned on 29 June 1946 and transferred to the United States Coast Guard the same day and commissioned by them as USCGC Cherokee (WAT-165) Redesignated medium endurance cutter WMEC-165 in 1965 Decommissioned by the Coast Guard at an unknown date Returned to the USN Stricken in 1991 Sunk as a target

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