ATR-52 was a rescue tug, and the hull number was her name. She was an ATR-1-class ship. Colberg Boat Works, at Stockton, California, laid her down on 30 March 1943, launched her on 5 May 1944, and the Navy commissioned her on 31 July 1944. Lieutenant Charles A. Miller had her at the commissioning. NavSource does not say whether he was a reservist, and it names no officer after him. The call sign was NFCD. NavSource's own figures for her are 852 tons light and 1,315 full, 165 feet 6 inches long, a beam of 33 feet 4 inches, a draft of 15 feet 6 inches, and 12.2 knots, with one 3-inch/50 and two single 20 mm guns, five officers, and 47 enlisted men. HyperWar's card for the same hull says 12 knots, one 3-inch gun, and a complement of 35.
There is no Dictionary history for her. The one campaign NavSource records is Iwo Jima, the assault and occupation from 19 February to 16 March 1945, and one battle star. Zuni's history adds a later job. After that tug grounded on Yellow Beach on 23 March, trying to pull LST-727 clear, Zebra and ATR-52 pulled her off. The 23rd is after the battle-star window printed for this tug. The tug's own record does not mention Zuni, Zebra, or the beach.
No decommissioning day and no strike day are recorded. She was disposed of in 1946, and what became of her after that is not known. She is not recorded as sunk in the war. Two weeks after she commissioned she was photographed underway in San Francisco Bay.
A note on sources. The building dates, the commissioning, Miller's name, the dimensions, the Iwo Jima window, the battle star, and the 1946 disposal are the NavSource page for ATR-52. There is no Dictionary entry on that page. The 23 March salvage is the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships entry for Zuni, which names Zebra and ATR-52 as the ships that pulled her off. HyperWar's displacement, speed, and complement are the short card cited above, and they are not used as her figures here.