Sister ship USS Abnaki (right), alongside a Soviet trawler
History
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
Chile
Name Janequeo
Commissioned February 1963
Fate Sunk in Caleta Manquemapu, 60 nmi (110 km; 69 mi) south of Corral, Chile , with loss of 51 men
General characteristics
Class and type Abnaki -class tug
Displacement 1,240 t.(lt) 1,675 t.(fl)
Length 205 ft (62 m)
Beam 38 ft 6 in (11.73 m)
Draft 15 ft 4 in (4.67 m)
Propulsion Diesel-electric 4 × 750 hp (560 kW) Busch-Sulzer BS-539 diesel main engines driving four General Electric main drive generators and two 1,500 hp (1,100 kW) pulsation motors
three diesel-drive General Motors 3-268A auxiliary services engines driving
three ship's service generators
two 200 kW 120 V/240 V DC
one 100 kW 120 V/240 V DC
single propeller, 3,000 shp (2,200 kW)
Speed 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Complement 85
Armament
1 × single 3 in (76 mm) cal. dual-purpose gun mount
2 × single 40 mm AA gun mounts
2 × single 20 mm AA gun mounts
The Chilean tugboat Janequeo (ATF-65) was an Abnaki -class tug of the Chilean Navy that sunk on 15 August 1965 during a devastating storm in the Bay of Manquemapu , 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) south of Corral, Chile with the loss of 51 men as she helped Leucotón that had run aground.
Bahía San Pedro, located at 40°53′29.24″S 73°51′1.59″W / 40.8914556°S 73.8504417°W / -40.8914556; -73.8504417 (Janequeo (ATF-65) )
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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1944
Shipwrecks
1 Nov: USS Abner Read , TA20 , HMS Whitaker
2 Nov: Fort Lee
3 Nov: Akikaze
5 Nov: Kiebitz , Nachi , PB-107 , TA21
7 Nov: USS Albacore , HM LST-420
8 Nov: USS Growler
9 Nov: U-537
10 Nov: Gokoku Maru , USS Mount Hood
11 Nov: Hamanami , Naganami , USS Scamp , Shimakaze , U-771 , U-1200 , Wakatsuki
12 Nov: HMAS Marlean , Tirpitz
13 Nov: Akebono , Akishimo , Hatsuharu , Hatsu Maru , I-12 , I-38 , Kiso , Okinami
17 Nov: USS LST-6 , Mayasan Maru , NKI 01 , Shin'yō (ex-Scharnhorst )
18 Nov: I-41 , Seisho Maru
20 Nov: USS Mississinewa , HMAS ML 827
21 Nov: Kongō , Urakaze
22 Nov: Hokkai Maru , HMS Stratagem
24 Nov: Hansa
25 Nov: Kumano , HMCS Shawinigan , Shimotsuki , Sumida , U-482 , Yasoshima
27 Nov: Rigel
28 Nov: U-80 , PB-105 , Yu 2
29 Nov: Fushimi , I-365 , Shinano
Unknown date: Mogador , U-479 , U-1020
Other incidents
10 Nov: USS Abarenda , USS Alhena , USS Argonne , USS Aries , USS Cacapon , USS Cebu , HMS Hydra , USS Kyne , USS Lyman , USS Mindanao , USS Oberrender , USS Petrof Bay , USS Piedmont , USS Potawatomi , USS Preserver , USS Saginaw Bay , USS Talbot , USS Walter C. Wann , USS YMS-238 , USS Young
13 Nov: U-1052
17 Nov: HMAS ML 827 , Seisho Maru
23 Nov: Gus W. Darnell
27 Nov: USS Gar
28 Nov: USS Spearfish
30 Nov: HMS Duff
Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1965
Shipwrecks Other incidents