All that NAFTS knows about the life of ATA 125 after service with the US Navy comes from this e-mail:
From: "J.Haver" <haverj@mail.worldonline.nl>
To: <snipe@NAFTS.com>
Subject: ATR 47 / ATA 125
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:41:08 +0100

Send you photographs from former ATR 47 / ATA 125

 Build 1943 as ATR 47
renamed 1943 as ATA 125 by U.S. NAVY,
sold in 1947 as JOSEPH H. MORAN II for Moran Towing & Transport Corp., New York, USA,
sold in 1949 as DRAGON for South American Towing Corp., New York, USA,
sold in 1953 as JOSEPH H. MORAN for Moran Towing & Transport Corp., New York, USA,
sold in 1960 as UTRECHT for Bureau Wijsmuller NV, IJmuiden, Holland,
sold in 1964 as HIPPOPOTAME for French NAVY.
Sunk in 1985 as training target by French NAVY nearby Tahiti.
 
Regards,
 
J. Haver
Brahmsstraat 36
1447 RL Purmerend
HOLLAND

 

US Maritime

ATA-125 CIRCA 1947 as 

JOSEPH H. MORAN II 

for Moran Towing & Transport Corp., New York, USA.  (Contributed by J Haver, Holland)

Netherlands

ATA-125 CIRCA 1960 as 

UTRECHT 

for Bureau Wijsmuller NV, IJmuiden, Holland, (Contributed by J Haver, Holland)

France

ATA-125 CIRCA 1964 as 

HIPPOPOTAME

 for French NAVY. (Contributed by J Haver, Holland)
 

NAFTS, National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors