USS Sagamore (AT-20)
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Name | Sagamore |
Builder | Buffalo Dry Dock Co. |
Laid down | 24 May 1917 |
Launched | November 1917 |
Commissioned | 8 June 1918 |
Decommissioned | 31 August 1946 |
Stricken | 7 February 1947 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1953 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | fleet tug |
Displacement | 969 long tons (985 t) |
Length | 156 ft 8 in (47.75 m) |
Beam | 30 ft 2 in (9.19 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 7 in (4.45 m) |
Speed | 13 kn (15 mph; 24 km/h) |
Complement | 61 |
Armament | 2 × 3 in (76 mm) guns |
USS Sagamore (AT-20) was a
Sagamore was originally laid down on 24 May 1917 as Commanche (SP-3296), as a steel-hulled ocean-going tug, at Buffalo Dry Dock Co., Buffalo, N.Y. under a
Sagamore was designated as a Fleet Tug (AT-20) on 17 July 1920. She was mostly employed in routine duties in New England. In March 1928 she was employed in the raising of the sunken submarine
Sagamore was reclassified, Fleet Tug Old, (ATO-20) on 14 May 1944 and decommissioned on 31 August 1946, at the
She was struck from the Naval Register on 28 January 1947 and transferred to the
Sagamore was sold on 24 December 1947, to Hughes Brothers of New York City for $11,327. She was acquired in 1948 by McAllister Brothers Towing and renamed John E. McAllister. She was scrapped in 1953 at Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
Awards
- World War I Victory Medal
- American Defense Service Medal
- American Campaign Medal
- World War II Victory Medal