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|Ship fate=Sunk 10 April 1942
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'''''Trabajador''''' was a {{convert|111|foot|m|1}} tug launched in 1931 from the [[Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock]] for Visayan Stevedore-Transportation Company and registered as a United States vessel in [[Iloilo City|Iloilo]], Philippines.{{sfn|Lloyd's Register 1933–34}}

==Commercial service==
In 1935 the ''Trabajador'' took part in a rescue of survivors from the British freighter {{MS|Silver Hazel|1927|2}} that was wrecked in [[San Bernardino Strait]]. Of 54 passengers and crew, 52 were rescued.{{sfn|Daily Trojan|1935}}<ref group=note>U.S. destroyers {{USS|Bulmer|DD-222|6}} and {{USS|Peary|DD-226|6}} are also mentioned in the news article. In [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=d6lQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-SEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6642%2C7635775 another article], the coastwise Philippine vessel ''Governor Taft'' and Japanese ''Chicago'' (''Chicago Maru'' (1910)) are mentioned.</ref>

==United States Navy service==
The tug was commandeered by [[United States Navy]] and assigned to the [[16th Naval District]] on 13 December 1941 under command of Lt. (jg.) Trose E. Donaldson, USNR as the [[Philippines campaign (1941–1942)|war came to the Philippines]].{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Trabajador}} Although not formally commissioned by the U.S. Navy, she served as a patrol boat tender in [[Manila Bay]] with the Base Section of the Navy's Inshore Patrol.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Trabajador}}

''Trabajador'', assisted by the {{USS|Finch|AM-9|6}}, dumped unused mines into [[Manila Bay]] as [[Corregidor]] came under air attack on 29 December 1941 and continued the operation through the next day.{{sfn|Cressman|1999|loc=1941, 29 December}} With the move of [[Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three]] to [[Sisiman Bay]]<ref group=note>"Sisiman Cove" in U.S. Naval references of the time, but now geographically known as [http://mapcarta.com/15717714 "Sisiman Bay"] just to the east of Mariveles. {{coord|14.425485|N|120.526927|E|}}</ref> on the [[Bataan|Bataan Peninsula]] the tug became tender to the [[PT boat]] squadron.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Trabajador}}{{sfn|White|1942|p=91}} For a brief time she was the "luxury" vessel for the PTs with a real galley, wardroom and a mess boy who baked pies.{{sfn|Smith|2005|p=174}} After the squadron had left with [[General MacArthur]] as a passenger thirty-two men were left behind including Lt. (jg.) Edward G. DeLong who assumed command of ''Trabajador'' on 25 February 1942.{{sfn|Smith|2005|pp=139, 174}} DeLong left Corregidor on 2 May and made it to [[Mindanao]] where he was later captured and executed in prison camp.{{sfn|Smith|2005|p=139}}

''Trabajador'' was sunk on 10 April 1942, most likely by Japanese artillery near [[Corregidor]], and was awarded a [[Service star|battle star]].{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Trabajador}}

==''Resolute''==
The tug remained on the bottom of Manila Bay until after the end of World War II. When she was salvaged she was renamed ''Resolute'' and continued operations in the Philippines into the late 1970s.{{sfn|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Trabajador}}

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==Sources==
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*{{cite web |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-Chron/USN-Chron-1941.html |title=The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II |last=Cressman| first=Robert J. |year=1999 |publisher=Contemporary History Branch, Naval Historical Center (now Naval History & Heritage Command) |access-date=20 December 2013}}
*{{wikicite |reference= {{cite journal |url=http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll104/id/48812 |title=Destroyers Save Survivors of Boat Wreck |date=13 November 1945 |volume=27 |issue=37 |journal=Daily Trojan |access-date=20 December 2013 }} | ref = {{harvid|Daily Trojan|1935}} }}
*{{wikicite |reference= {{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/t/trabajador.html |title=''Trabajador'' |author=Naval History And Heritage Command |work=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships |publisher=Naval History And Heritage Command |access-date=20 December 2013}} | ref = {{harvid|Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Trabajador}} }}
*{{cite web |url=https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/33/33a0556.pdf |title=Lloyd's Register 1933–34 |author=Lloyds |publisher=Lloyd's Register (through PlimsollShipData) |access-date=10 March 2015  |ref={{sfnref|Lloyd's Register 1933–34}}}}
* {{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=George W. |year=2005 |title=MacArthur's Escape : John "Wild Man" Bulkeley and the Rescue of an American Hero |location=St Paul, MN |publisher=Zenith Press |lccn=2005298302 }}
* {{cite book |last1=White |first1=William L. |year=1942 |title=They Were Expendable |location=London |publisher=H. Hamilton |lccn=43008243 }}
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==External links==
*[http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll104/id/48812 ''Daily Trojan'' page image] with ''Silver Hazel'' rescue story.
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[[Category:Merchant ships of the Philippines]]
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