HMS Tattoo (J374)

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.

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	Returned to the US, January 1947 Transferred to the Foreign Liquidation Commission and sold to Turkey
History
Turkey
Name	TCG Çarşamba (AGS-1, A-594)
Namesake	Çarşamba
Acquired	March 1947
Reclassified	survey ship
Stricken	1985
General characteristics
Class and 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
Armament	1 × 3"/50 caliber gun 2 × 40 mm guns 2 × 20 mm guns 2 × Depth charge tracks

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.