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Jim Perkins, circa 1935-2012

 

Summary

Extent:
1 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [boxes and Folder number], Jim Perkins, 97.0035, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/WWII-97-0035

Background

Scope and content:

Jim Perkins' manuscript, "1/Zuni: Fleet Tug of the US Navy, Tamarora: US Coast Guard Cutter," is a history of the tugboat, the USS Zuni, in the US Navy. The ship later became the Tamarora, a US Coast Guard cutter. His typed account describes the experience of the Zuni in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The Zuni sailed from Alaska to the South Pacific from its christening in 1943 to its renaming and move to the Coast Guard in 1946. In the Navy, the Zuni towed barges and dry docks and assisted damaged ships. Perkins focuses this assistance on the help the Zuni offered the USS Reno after the Reno was damaged by a torpedo in San Bernardino Strait in the Philippines. The manuscript includes copies of the wartime deck log of this event, copies of photographs of the Zuni's 1943 crew, descriptions of daily experience on the ship throughout the ship's history, copies of naval citations from the Reno event, and a copy of the official operational reports from the commander of the Reno. The book is based on his own research on the Zuni/Tamarora and tugboats throughout WWII.

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [boxes and Folder number], Jim Perkins, 97.0035, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/WWII-97-0035

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA