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.

Tattoo served for part of World War II patrolling off Iceland.

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).

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