HMS Tattoo
Minesweeper of the Royal Navy
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HMS Tattoo was an Auk-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was laid down by Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation (Chickasaw, Alabama) on 8 June 1942 as BAM-32 and launched on 27 January 1943. She was transferred to the Royal Navy and commissioned as HMS Tattoo on 26 October 1943.
NameHMS Tattoo
Laid down8 June 1942 as (BAM-32)
Launched27 January 1943
| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Tattoo |
| Builder | Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation, Chickasaw, Alabama |
| Laid down | 8 June 1942 as (BAM-32) |
| Launched | 27 January 1943 |
| Completed | 26 October 1943, and transferred to the UK under Lend-Lease |
| Fate |
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| History | |
 Turkey | |
| Name | TCG Çarşamba (AGS-1, A-594) |
| Namesake | Çarşamba |
| Acquired | March 1947 |
| Reclassified | survey ship |
| Stricken | 1985 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Catherine-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 890 long tons (904 t) |
| Length | 221 ft 3 in (67.44 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m) |
| Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Complement | 100 |
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Tattoo served for part of World War II patrolling off Iceland. At one point, she returned to Britain for repairs to a fouled propeller.
She returned to the United States in 1947, sold to the Turkish Navy in March 1947 as a survey ship and renamed TCG Çarşamba (AGS-1, later A-594).[1]
She was stricken from the Naval Register in 1985.
