USS Unadilla (ATA-182)

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USS Unadilla (ATA-182) underway while towing a target sled.
History
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	Hull symbol: ATA-182 Code letters: NJQI IMO number: 7942271
Fate	Acquired for commercial service by Erato Shipping & Trading Corp. S.A., Panama, 13 April 1976
General characteristics
Class and type	Sotoyomo-class auxiliary fleet tug
Displacement	534 long tons (543 t) (standard) 835 long tons (848 t) (full load)
Length	143 ft (44 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draft	13 ft (4.0 m)
Installed power	2 × GM 12-278A Diesel-electric engines 1,200 shp (890 kW)
Propulsion	1 × Fairbanks Morse Main Reduction gear 1 × screw propeller
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	45
Armament	1 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 caliber Dual purpose gun 2 × 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon cannons

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.