USS Pawnee (ATF-74)
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United States | |
Name | USS Pawnee |
Builder | United Engineering Company, Alameda, California |
Laid down | 23 October 1941 |
Launched | 31 March 1942 |
Commissioned | 7 November 1942 |
Decommissioned | January 1947 |
Reclassified | ATF–74, 15 May 1944 |
Stricken | 1 September 1962 |
Fate |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | fleet tug |
Displacement | 1,675 long tons (1,702 t) |
Length | 205 ft (62 m) |
Beam | 38 ft 6 in (11.73 m) |
Draft | 15 ft 4 in (4.67 m) |
Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Complement | 85 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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USS Pawnee (AT-74/ATF-74) was a
Pawnee was laid down on 23 October 1941 by the United Engineering Company, Alameda, California; launched on 31 March 1942 and commissioned on 7 November 1942.
Service history
After a Pacific coast
Pawnee operated in the
On 14 October 1944, off the coast of
She served with the Naval Occupation Forces in the Philippines from 28 September 1945 until 24 February 1946, when she sailed to Pearl Harbor. In January 1947 she decommissioned and entered the Columbia River Group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet. Pawnee was struck from the Navy List on 1 September 1962 and placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, Washington, where she remained until 1971.
Pawnee was sold on 9 November 1971 to Hatch and Kirk, Inc of Seattle, WA for $31,850[2] and was broken up the next year.[3]
References
- ^ "NH 98825 USS Houston (CL-81)".
- ^ "PMARS is currently down for maintainence [sic]". Archived from the original on 2012-03-04. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
- ^ "PMARS is currently down for maintainence [sic]". Archived from the original on 2012-03-04. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Suggested Reading
- ISBN 1-55750-581-0. A personal account of a radioman who served aboard the Pawnee from her commissioning until 1945.
External links
- Photo gallery of USS Pawnee at NavSource Naval History