Janequeo (ATF-65)

Sister ship USS Abnaki (right), alongside a Soviet trawler
Career (United States)
Name: Potawatomi
Laid down: 19 October 1942
Launched: 3 April 1943
Commissioned: 12 February 1944
Decommissioned: 28 April 1948
Reclassified: Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-109), 15 May 1944
Fate: sold to Chile
Career (Chile)
Name: Janequeo
Commissioned: February 1963
Fate: Sunk in Caleta Manquemapu, 60 nm south of Corral, Chile, with lost of 51 men
General characteristics
Class and type:Abnaki-class tug
Displacement:1,240 t.(lt) 1,675 t.(fl)
Length:205 feet (62 m)
Beam:38 feet 6 inches (11.73 m)
Draft:15 feet 4 inches (4.67 m)
Propulsion:Diesel-electric 4x750hp Busch-Sulzer BS-539 Diesel main engines driving four General Electric main drive generators and two 1500hp pulsation motors

three Diesel-drive General Motors 3-268A auxiliary services engines driving three Ship's Service Generators two 200Kw 120V/240V DC one 100Kw 120V/240V DC

single propeller, 3000shp
Speed:16.5 kn
Complement:85
Armament:one single 3"/50 cal. dual purpose gun mount

two single 40mm AA gun mounts

two single 20mm AA gun mounts

Janequeo (ATF-65) was a tug of the Chilean Navy that sunk on 15 August 1965 during a devastating storm at the Bay of Manquemapu, 60 nm south of Corral, Chile with the lost of 51 men as she helped the Leucotón (PP-61) that had run aground.

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