ARA Comodoro Somellera

USS Catawba
History
United States
Name	Catawba
Namesake	Catawba River
Builder	Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works
Launched	15 February 1945
Commissioned	1945
Decommissioned	1972
Fate	transferred to Argentine Navy, 1972
Stricken	1 February 1972
Argentina
Name	Comodoro Somellera
Acquired	10 February 1972
Commissioned	10 February 1972
Out of service	1998
Fate	Sunk during storm in Port of Ushuaia in 1998, hull recovered and stored before use as a target in 2017
General characteristics
Class and type	Sotoyomo-class tugboat
Displacement	835 tons (848 t) (full)
Length	143 ft (44 m)
Beam	33 ft 10 in (10.31 m)
Draft	13 ft 2 in (4.01 m)
Propulsion	Diesel-electric engines, 1,500 shp (1,100 kW) single screw
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement	45–49
Armament	as Catawba 1 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 gun 2 × twin 40 mm AA guns as Somellera 1 × 40 mm /60 Bofors gun 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

ARA Comodoro Somellera (A-10) was a Sotoyomo-class rescue tug that served in the Argentine Navy from 1972 to 1998 classified as an aviso. She previously served in the US Navy as USS Catawba (ATA-210) from 1945 to 1972. After being damaged beyond repair in 1998, she was deliberately sunk as a weapons target in November 2017.