page_title: USS Zuni (ATF-95)
section_title: USCGC Tamaroa
hierarchical_section_title: USS Zuni (ATF-95) / USCGC Tamaroa
caption_attribution_description: USCGC_Tamaroa (WUEC 166)
context_page_description: USS Zuni, a Cherokee-class fleet tugboat, formerly called Navajo class, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the Zuni, the popular name given to a tribe of Pueblo Indians indigenous to the area around the Zuni River in central New Mexico near the Arizona state line.
  Zuni was laid down on 8 March 1943 at Portland, Oregon, by the Commercial Iron Works; launched on 31 July 1943; sponsored by Mrs. J. J. O'Donnell; and commissioned on 9 October 1943, Lieutenant Ray E. Chance in command.
context_section_description: The ship was renamed USCGC Tamaroa (WAT-166), after the Tamaroa tribe of the Illiniwek tribal group. She was later reclassified a Medium Endurance Cutter, WMEC-166. As Tamaroa, she is best known for her rescue work during the "Perfect Storm" of 1991. She was decommissioned by the Coast Guard on 1 February 1994.
  From 2009 till 2011 Tamaroa had been undergoing restoration work at Little Creek in preparation to its move to its future home port in the City of Portsmouth. In 2011 she was moved to the Nauticus on the waterfront in downtown Norfolk where she remained for a brief stay. She was then moved to a private shipyard across the Elizabeth river where she awaits her final fate. In late 2011 or early 2012 she suffered a major leak during a storm.  Her owner decided that it was no longer worth keeping and turned her over to the shipyard owner.  The Zuni Maritime Foundation was able to remove the property that they had acquired to outfit the ship and has transferred to other museum ships.
caption: USCGC Tamaroa in May 1990
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