USS Chippewa (AT-69)
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Name | USS Chippewa |
Builder | Charleston Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Charleston, South Carolina |
Launched | 25 July 1942 |
Commissioned | 14 February 1943 |
Decommissioned | 26 February 1947 |
Reclassified | ATF-69, 15 May 1944 |
Stricken | 1 September 1961 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | fleet tug |
Displacement | 1,235 long tons (1,255 t) |
Length | 205 ft (62 m) |
Beam | 38 ft 6 in (11.73 m) |
Draft | 15 ft 4 in (4.67 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Complement | 85 |
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USS Chippewa (AT-69) was a
Chippewa was laid down as AT-69, on 26 June 1942, by the
World War II Atlantic Ocean operations
Chippewa crossed the Atlantic from Norfolk to Casablanca to lay buoys there between 4 May 1943 and 9 June, returning to Boston 26 June. Two days later, she cleared for Norfolk and overhaul, and on 19 July began towing duty with a passage to Bermuda and Jacksonville. Assigned to duty in the Caribbean Sea Frontier, she made Trinidad, British West Indies, her principal base until 6 May 1944, when she returned to Norfolk for repairs. On 15 May she was reclassified ATF-69.
With repairs complete 11 June 1944, Chippewa returned to towing and salvage duty in the Caribbean out of Trinidad until 29 March 1945. After repairs at Norfolk, she was reassigned for duty based on Argentia, Newfoundland, between 19 May and 1 November. During this time, she made a long towing voyage to Houston, Tex. Chippewa made her last towing passage from Boston to Bermuda to Norfolk, where she arrived 28 December with SS War Bonnet in tow.
Post-war decommissioning and Fate
In March 1946, Chippewa reported to the
References
- ^ "PMARS is currently down for maintainence [sic]". Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
- ^ Wreck diving panamacitydivecharters.com [dead link]
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery of USS Chippewa (AT-69/ATF-69) at NavSource Naval History