High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Geronimo (ATA-207) an auxiliary ocean tug, was built by the Gulfport Boiler and Welding Works of Port Arthur, Texas, and originally designated ATR-134. Launched 4 January 1945 as ATA-207, she commissioned 1 March 1945, Lt. Joseph K. Hawkins in command. On 16 July 1948, she was named Geronimo, the second U.S. Navy named after the Apache chief Geronimo (1829–1909). ATA-207 completed shakedown training off Galveston, Texas, and then reported to Tampa, Florida, to pick up a barracks ship to be towed to the Pacific. She transited the Panama Canal with her tow 15 April, and arrived at Leyte, Philippines, via Pearl Harbor, 25 June 1945. She departed for Guadalcanal on 2 July to serve as harbor and rescue tug at Lunga Point Naval Base. On 21 July she departed Lunga Point for Leyte with cargo lighters in tow, arriving just after the surrender of Japan.

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