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| Name: | USS Challenge |
| Ordered: | as Rescue Ocean Tug ATR-128, redesignated Auxiliary Fleet Tug ATA-201, 15 May 1944 |
| Builder: | Gulfport Boiler and Welding Works, Port Arthur, Texas |
| Laid down: | 3 August 1944 |
| Launched: | 23 September 1944 |
| Acquired: | 22 November 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 15 September 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 December 1947 |
| Renamed: | Challenge (ATA-201), 16 July 1948 |
| Struck: | 1 September 1962 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, 1 October 1976 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Sotoyomo-class auxiliary fleet tug |
| Displacement: | 610 long tons (620 t) light 860 long tons (874 t) full |
| Length: | 143 ft (44 m) |
| Beam: | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric engines, single screw |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement: | 7 officers, 42 enlisted men |
| Armament: | • 1 × single 3"/50 caliber gun • 2 × twin 40 mm AA gun mounts |
USS Challenge (ATA-201) was a Sotoyomo-class auxiliary fleet tug acquired by the United States Navy for service during and after World War II.
Challenge was planned and authorized as Rescue Ocean Tug ATR-128 and was reclassified Auxiliary Fleet Tug ATA-201, 15 May 1944. She was laid down on 3 August 1944 at Gulfport Boiler & Welding, Port Arthur, Texas, launched on 23 September 1944, delivered to the Navy on 22 November 1944, commissioned as USS ATA-201 on 15 September 1944.
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Challenge served on the U.S. East Coast. Very little data is available. However, Navy records indicate she towed Bangust (DE-739) from Green Cove Springs, Florida, to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1947.
Challenge was decommissioned on 23 December 1947 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 September 1962. The ship was named USS Challenge (ATA-201) on 16 July 1948. She was sold for scrapping on 1 October 1976 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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