History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Potomac |
Launched | 1897, as Wilmot |
Acquired | by purchase, 14 April 1898 |
Decommissioned | 26 June 1922 |
Reclassified | AT-50, July 1920 |
Stricken | 31 July 1922 |
Fate |
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General characteristics | |
Type | Tugboat |
Displacement | 785 long tons (798 t) |
Length | 138 ft 9 in (42.29 m) |
Beam | 28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) |
Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Speed | 16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h) |
Complement | 56 |
Armament | 2 × 3-pounder guns |
USS Potomac (AT-50), a tug built in 1897 as Wilmot by the F. W. Wheeler Company, West Bay City, Michigan, was purchased by the United States Navy from the Ocean Towing and Wrecking Company on 14 April 1898 for service in the Spanish–American War, commanded by Lieutenant G. P. Blow.