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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | Ship flag={{USN flag}} | Ship name=USS Mecosta | Ship namesake=Mecosta,a 19th century Potawatomi chief. | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Consolidated Shipbuilding Corporation, Morris Heights, New York | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down=13 September 1944 | Ship launched=28 October 1944 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service=20 January 1945 | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified=Reclassified YTM-391 1 February 1962 | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Sold to commercial interests 1 July 1981 | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
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}} | Originally contracted to be built as YT‑392 on 7 April 1941, Mecosta (YTB‑392) was laid down by Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, N.Y., 13 September 1944; launched 28 October 1944: and placed in service 20 January 1945. Mecosta was assigned to Service Squadron 1, Service Force, Atlantic Fleet, for a year of towing and salvage duties from arrival off the European coast 1 March. In March 1946 she transferred to the Naval Operating Base at Bermuda for support service as a large harbor tug for the next 9 years. She was redesignated YTM‑392 on 1 February 1962. Mecosta began operations with the Atlantic Fleet, based from Norfolk, Va., in March 1965, continuing her service to the fleet into 1969. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/m8/mecosta.htm}}
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