The contract for Apalachicola was awarded 18 January 1963. She was laid down on 1 May 1963 at Mobile, Alabama, by Mobile Ship Repair and launched 26 October 1963.
During the 1990s Apalachicola served alongside Pokagon(YTB-836) and Arcata(YTB-768). Pokagon was the newest YTB class tugboat in the navy at the time. The three tugs were docked at the easternmost pier of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, located a few hundred yards west of the Bremerton Seattle Ferry terminal.
In 1992, Apalachicola moved a crane barge from the shipyard to the Bremerton boardwalk. The barge's crane moved a bronze statue of a ship's propeller and a shipyard worker presenting a model aircraft carrier to a young boy onto the boardwalk. The bronze statue was forged in the shipyard and remains on the Bremerton boardwalk today.
The Apalachicola (also called Pallachacola, ) were a group of Native Americans related to the Muscogee people. They spoke a Muskogean language related to Hitchiti. They lived along the Apalachicola River in present-day Florida. Their name derives probably from Hitchiti Apalachicoli or Muskogee Apalachicolo, signifying apparently "People of the other side", with reference probably to the Apalachicola River or some nearby stream.
History
Around 1706 some Apalachicola moved from the Apalachicola River area to the Savannah River, which formed the future border between the colony of South Carolina and Georgia. They may have been captured during English-sponsored slave raids and forced to relocate to the Savannah River area. A census taken in 1708 described the Apalachicola of the Savannah River as the "Naleathuckles", with 80 men settled in a town about 20 miles up the Savannah River. A more accurate census was taken by John Barnwell in early 1715. It described the Savannah River Apalachicola as living in two villages and having a population of 214 people: 64 men, 71 women, 42 boys, and 37 girls.
Environmentalists may have scored a victory Friday in an effort to prevent oil and gas drilling along the environmentally fragile ApalachicolaRiver in Calhoun County, 60 miles west of Tallahassee.
Once upon a time, the state of Florida did everything in its power to protect the ApalachicolaRiver ecosystem, but now the state is proposing to permit oil drilling in the river floodplain and people are upset.
Each morning, Bervera boats into the middle of Apalachicola Bay, where she has raised oysters full-time for two years ... “It could make or break what grows in our very delicate bay,” said Bervera, founder of the Apalachicola farm Water is Life Oysters.
ClearwaterLand's proposed site sits about one mile from the ApalachicolaRiver and would involve drilling a 14,000-foot exploratory well in a hurricane-prone part of the state. The Apalachicola ...
The "Forestry Patrol Deputy" will "provide dedicated law enforcement coverage across the region, including the expansive ApalachicolaNational Forest," LCSO said in a recent press release ...Christian Caban ....
A slight nip of fall is in the air, and that means it’s time for Apalachicola Riverkeeper’s annual RiverTrek. The kayaking journey down the entire river from Chattahoochee to Apalachicola from Oct.
Near the Florida-Georgia border, the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers meet and become the ApalachicolaRiver, which carries freshwater and nutrients downstream to the Apalachicola Bay.
Much of the once accessible backwater habitat on the ApalachicolaRiver is now cut off by mounds of sand blocking flowing water from going into and out of sloughs ... Apalachicola Riverkeeper is ...
Many of us Apalachicolans who were born and grew up in Apalachicola always give full credit to our safe arrival in this world to Dr ...AltonSloan Ham, he came to Apalachicola to follow his chosen profession in 1909 ... Weems' early years in Apalachicola.
The Apalachicola Riverkeeper is mounting a legal challenge to try to stop the latest effort to drill for oil in environmentally sensitive North Florida... The well is located between the Apalachicola and ...
