USS Challenge (ATA-201)
Challenge laid up after being decommissioned | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Challenge |
| Ordered | as Rescue Ocean Tug ATR-128, redesignated Auxiliary Fleet Tug ATA-201, 15 May 1944 |
| Builder | Gulfport Boiler & 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 |
| Stricken | 1 September 1962 |
| Identification |
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| Status | In service as Saje Commander |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sotoyomo-class auxiliary fleet tug |
| Displacement |
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| 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 |
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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 Works, 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.