USS Unadilla (ATA-182)
USS Unadilla (ATA-182) underway while towing a target sled. | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Unadilla |
| Builder | Levingston Shipbuilding Company, Orange, Texas |
| Laid down | 30 June 1944 |
| Launched | 5 August 1944 |
| Commissioned | 16 October 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 26 November 1946 |
| Recommissioned | 3 May 1951 |
| Decommissioned | 22 July 1955 |
| Reclassified | Auxiliary Fleet Tug (ATA-182),15 May 1944 |
| Stricken | 1 September 1961 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Acquired for commercial service by Erato Shipping & Trading Corp. S.A., Panama, 13 April 1976 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sotoyomo-class auxiliary fleet tug |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 143 ft (44 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 45 |
| Armament |
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Although originally projected as steel-hulled, seagoing, rescue tug ATR-109, the third Unadilla was re-classified an auxiliary ocean tug and redesignated ATA-182 on 15 May 1944; laid down on 30 June 1944 at Orange, Texas, by the Levingston Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 5 August 1944; and commissioned on 16 October 1944.