Chilean tugboat Janequeo explained
| -- full code --> | +| Ship Caption: | Sister ship USS Abnaki (right), alongside a Soviet trawler |
| Ship Country: | United States | | Ship Name: | Potawatomi | | Ship Laid Down: | 19 October 1942 | | Ship Launched: | 3 April 1943 | | Ship Commissioned: | 12 February 1944 | | Ship Decommissioned: | 28 April 1948 | | Ship Reclassified: | Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-109), 15 May 1944 | | Ship Fate: | Sold to Chile |
| Hide Header: | title | | Ship Country: | Chile | | Ship Name: | Janequeo | | Ship Commissioned: | February 1963 | | Ship Fate: | Sunk in Caleta Manquemapu, 60nmi south of Corral, Chile, with loss of 51 men |
| Ship Displacement: | 1,240 t.(lt) 1,675 t.(fl) | | Ship Length: | 205feet | | Ship Beam: | 38feet | | Ship Draft: | 15feet | | Ship Propulsion: | Diesel-electric 4 × 750hp Busch-Sulzer BS-539 diesel main engines driving four General Electric main drive generators and two 1500hp pulsation motorsthree diesel-drive General Motors 3-268A auxiliary services engines drivingthree ship's service generatorstwo 200 kW 120 V/240 V DCone 100 kW 120 V/240 V DCsingle propeller, 3000shp | | Ship Speed: | 16.5kn | | Ship Complement: | 85 | | Ship Armament: | - 1 × single 3inches cal. dual-purpose gun mount
- 2 × single 40 mm AA gun mounts
- 2 × single 20 mm AA gun mounts
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The
Chilean tugboat Janequeo (ATF-65) was an of the
Chilean Navy that sunk on 15 August 1965 during a devastating storm in the Bay of Manquemapu, 60nmi south of
Corral, Chile with the loss of 51 men as she helped that had run aground.
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