History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Cahuilla |
Namesake | Cahuilla Native American people |
Builder | Charleston Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. |
Laid down | as Cahuilla (AT-152) |
Launched | 2 November 1944 |
Commissioned | 10 March 1945 |
Decommissioned | 27 June 1947 |
Reclassified | Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-152), 15 May 1944 |
Stricken | 9 July 1961 |
Fate | Transferred under the Security Assistance Program to Argentina, 9 July 1961 |
History | |
Argentina | |
Name | ARA Comandante General Irigoyen (A-1) |
Acquired | 9 July 1961 |
Out of service | 2009 |
Fate | Museum ship |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Abnaki class fleet tug |
Displacement |
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Length | 205 ft (62 m) |
Beam | 38 ft 6 in (11.73 m) |
Draft | 15 ft 5 in (4.70 m) |
Propulsion | 4 × General Motors 12-278A Diesel-electric engines, 3,000 hp (2,237 kW), single screw |
Speed | 16 knots (18 mph; 30 km/h) |
Complement | 85 |
Armament |
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USS Cahuilla (ATF-152) was an Abnaki class fleet tug in the service of the United States Navy during World War II. In 1961 she was sold to the Argentine Navy as ARA Irigoyen (A-1) where she served until 2009 when she became a Museum ship.