USS Salish (ATA-187)

ARA Alférez Sobral (A-9), former USS Salish (ATA-187)
History
United States
Name:	ATA-187
Laid down:	29 August 1944
Launched:	29 September 1944
Commissioned:	7 December 1944
Renamed:	Salish, 16 July 1948
Decommissioned:	10 February 1972
Fate:	transferred to Argentine Navy, 10 February 1972
Struck:	1 February 1975
History
Argentina
Name:	ARA Alferez Sobral (A-9)
Acquired:	10 February 1972
Status:	currently in the service of the Argentine Navy as of 2010[update]
General characteristics
Displacement:	835 tons (848 t) (full)
Length:	143 feet (43.6 m)
Beam:	33 ft 10 in (10.3 m)
Draft:	13 ft 2 in (4.0 m)
Propulsion:	Diesel-electric engines, 1,500 shp single screw
Speed:	13 knots (24 km/h)
Complement:	45–49
Armament:	as Salish 1 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 guns, 2 × twin 40 mm AA guns as Alférez Sobral 1 × 40 mm /60 Bofors gun, 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

USS Salish (ATA-187) (previously ATR-114) was a Sotoyomo-class rescue tug US Navy ship, her hull was laid down on 29 August 1944. She left US service on 10 February 1972 and was recommissioned in the Argentine Navy on the same day as the ARA Alferez Sobral (A-9)

ATA-187 (ex-ATR-114) was laid down on 29 August 1944 by the Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, Texas; launched on 29 September 1944; and commissioned on 7 December 1944, Lieutenant Thomas G. Lewis in command.

Designated for duty with Service Division 101 in the Pacific, ATA-187 completed shakedown early in January 1945, and departed New Orleans for Hawaii on the 18th with APL-10 in tow. She reached Pearl Harbor on 4 March; exchanged the barracks ship for two lighters; and continued across the Pacific. At Guam, she changed tows again and sailed for the Ryukyus pulling two floating derricks. On 22 April, she delivered her charges to the Hagushi anchorage, Okinawa; then, retraced her route back to Guam, whence she made a second run, with a power barge and a yard ferry, to Okinawa. She completed that run at Buckner Bay on 22 May; assisted in downing an enemy bomber the next day; and, at the end of the month, departed for Ulithi and the Philippines. From the former, she towed an oil barge and two lighters to the latter, arriving in San Pedro Bay, Leyte, on 27 June.