History | |
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United States | |
Builder | Levingston Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 5 October 1943 |
Launched | 18 November 1943 |
Commissioned | 20 July 1944 |
Fate | Sold to Peru in 1961; fate unknown |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sotoyomo-class auxiliary fleet tug |
Displacement | 534 t.(lt) 835 t.(fl) |
Length | 143 ft (44 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
Propulsion | diesel-electric engines, single screw |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
Complement | 45 |
Armament |
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USS Wateree (ATA-174), the third ship named USS Wateree, was a Sotoyomo-class auxiliary fleet tug in the service of the United States Navy during World War II. She later served with the Military Sea Transportation Service and the Peruvian Navy as a diving support ship. In Peruvian naval service she was renamed BAP Unanue (ATA-136).[1]