Red Cloud (YTB-268), a type V2-ME-A1, same as Pocahontas, alongside David C. Shanks, outside the Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco Bay, California, 1950s
| |
History | |
---|---|
United States | |
Name | Port Blakely |
Namesake | Port Blakely |
Owner | Maritime Commission |
Ordered | as type (V2-ME-A1) hull, MCE hull 433[1] |
Awarded | 23 August 1941 |
Builder | Birchfield Boiler, Inc., Tacoma, Washington |
Cost | $301,042[1] |
Yard number | 1 |
Laid down | 27 October 1941 |
Launched | 1 May 1942 |
Status | Transferred to the US Navy, 31 December 1942 |
United States | |
Name | Pocahontas |
Namesake | Pocahontas |
Owner | US Navy |
Acquired | 31 December 1942 |
Reclassified | |
Identification |
|
Fate | Scrapped, 25 February 2019 |
General characteristics [2] | |
Class and type | Hiawatha-class tugboat |
Type | Harbor tug |
Displacement | 237 long tons (241 t) |
Length | 100 ft (30 m) |
Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 7 in (2.92 m) |
Installed power |
|
Propulsion | Single propeller |
Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Crew | 14 |
Armament | 2 × 0.50 in (12.70 mm) heavy machine guns |
USS Pocahontas (YT/YTB/YTM-266), was a type V2-ME-A1 harbor tug that entered service in the United States Navy in 1943, and was sold in 1976. She was the third ship to bear the name Pocahontas.