USS Zuni (ATF-95)

USS Zuni (ATF-95)

USS Zuni (AT/ATF-95), a Navajo-class Fleet tugboat, 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 (AT-95) 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.