The Air Snipe was laid down as SC-1068 in Camden, NJ for service with the USN in WWII, she first traveled to Dutch Harbor, AK via the Panama Canal and then ranged out the Aleutians. By 1944 she was in the South Pacific and earned a battle star for the invasion of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls. She then spent 2 years in Seattle with the USCG as WAVR-465 and gained the name Air Snipe, finally she was sold to private owners where she ended up with Boyer Towing in 1954 and operated as a commercial tug until the mid 1990's . Kent Halvorsen of Boyer then restored her and began her 4th career as the "company yacht" - after Kent's passing in Nov. of 2023 the Air Snipe Foundation was formed and acts as the caretaker of this unique piece of WWII USN and SE AK Towboat history.