Two ships of the

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have been named USCGC ''Tamaroa'', ultimately after the Tamaroa tribe of the Illiniwek tribal group. * was originally the 869-ton steam-powered

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tug ''Bartolme''. She was acquired by the Coast Guard in 1921, renamed ''Tamaroa'' after Tamaroa, Illinois, and commissioned in 1922. She remained in service until 1935. * , originally the U.S. Navy salvage tug , was launched in 1943 and transferred to the Coast Guard in 1946. Best known for a rescue conducted during the

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, ''Tamaroa'' was decommissioned in 1994 and sunk as an

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on 2017.

References

''Tamaroa'', 1921
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