Alleghany Pier

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Named after the USS Allegheny, AT 19. In the spring of 1921, Allegheny moved to the Naval Air Station (NAS) at Pensacola, Fla., to serve as station tug. She continued in that job for the next decade. Highlighting the ship's tour there: she plane-guarded for Langley (CV-1) in 1923, as that ship worked up in the waters around the air station, joined the tug Bay Spring (AT 60) in aiding survivors from the gunboat Tacoma (PG-32) stranded at Veracruz, Mexico, in late January 1924, and assisted in providing flood relief along the Mississippi River between 24 April and 5 June 1927. During the latter operation, she rescued passengers and crew from the sunken steamer Thomas R. Buckham on 21 May. She was turned over to the Maritime Commission on 18 February 1947 and eventually scrapped. Alleghany pier served as home dock for 6 different aircraft carriers.