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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1945}} | Ship name= USS Tesota | Ship namesake= A small leguminous tree found in Mexico and the southwestern section of the United States. Also called desert ironwood. | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= as YN-95 | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= Canulette Shipbuilding Co., Slidell, Louisiana | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= 11 December 1943 as Tesota (YN-95) | Ship launched= 29 July 1944 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= 16 January 1945 as USS ATA-217 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= 7 May 1946, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= AN-71, 20 January 1944; USS ATA-217, 10 August 1944 | Ship refit= | Ship struck= 21 May 1946 | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Burned off Mexico, 17 February 1949 | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
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}} | USS ATA-217 was an {{sclass-|ATA-214|tug}} of the United States Navy built near the end of World War II. Originally laid down as Tesota (YN-95), a net tender of the {{sclass-|Ailanthus|net laying ship|4}}, she was redesignated as AN-71, a net layer, before launch. Before completion, the name Tesota was cancelled and the ship was named ATA-217, an unnamed auxiliary ocean tug. Career ATA-217 was laid down as the net tender Tesota (YN-95) on 11 December 1943 at Slidell, Louisiana, by the Canulette Shipbuilding Company; was reclassified a net laying ship and redesignated AN-71 on 20 January 1944; and was launched on 29 July 1944. However, the name Tesota was canceled on 10 August 1944, and the ship was reclassified an auxiliary ocean tug and re-designated ATA-217 on the same day. She was commissioned on 16 January 1945, Lt. H. A. V. Post, USNR, in command. Following a short shakedown cruise early in February 1945, the tug departed Norfolk, Virginia, for Hawaii and arrived at her home port, Pearl Harbor, on 1 March. After serving there for more than a year, the ship proceeded to the U.S. West Coast. ATA-217 was decommissioned at Mare Island, California, on 7 May, and was struck from the Navy List on 21 May 1946. ATA-217 was transferred to the U.S. Maritime Commission on 25 March 1947 and was sold the same day to Martinolick Shipbuilding Co., San Francisco, California. References - {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/t4/tesota.htm}}
- NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - YN-95 / AN-71 'Tesota - ATA-217
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