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QUA PAW Relieves fiUNSEE
The USS QUAPAW ATF'-llO arrived at Adak Sunday 9 December to relieve the
USS MUNSEE ATF-107 as the GAR and salvage ship for the Adak Area*
The QUAPAWs 205 feet long and displacing 15 hundred tons, has a crew of
70 men and 5 officers* The QUAPAW was commissioned in 1944 and saw action
in the South Pacific and Korea* She presently is home ported in Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii and is normally under the operational and administrative
control of the Commander Service Force, U. S. Pacific Fleet*
The- QUAPAW was in Adak last fall for a brief stop and this past year has
had a yard overhaul and participated in the Operation Dominic Nuclear test
at Christmas and Johnston Islands# In previous years, the ship has made
the normal trips to the Far East with■WestPac#
The QUAPAW left Pearl Harbor 15 November and arrived in Seattle 23 November
with the YTM 539 in tow, she left Pier 91 on 28 November and proceeded via
the inside passage to Kodiak and then on to Adak#
The officers and men of the QUAPAW are mainly interested in the supporting
activities, fishing and hunting in Ada!: and would like to enter a bowling
league® Meanwhile to more effectively utilize leisure hours, courses in
General Math, English, Algebra, General Sceince, and Electronics are be
ing taught by ship's Instructors#
The officers and men are proud of thair ship and strive to live up to the
ship's motto "Facto non Verba" "Deeds not Words*"