History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Sotoyomo |
Builder | Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, Texas |
Laid down | 7 September 1942 |
Launched | 19 October 1942 |
Commissioned | 29 May 1943, as USS ATR-43 |
Decommissioned | 9 April 1946 |
Recommissioned | 6 June 1951 |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1955 |
Renamed |
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Stricken | 1 September 1961 |
Fate | Sold to the Republic of Mexico Navy, June 1963 |
Mexico | |
Name | ARM Sotoyomo |
Acquired | June 1963 |
Fate | Unknown |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sotoyomo-class tugboat |
Displacement |
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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 | 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun |
USS Sotoyomo (ATR-43/ATA-121) was a rescue tug of the United States Navy that served during World War II and the early 1950s, and was sold to Mexico in 1963.
The ship was laid down on 7 September 1942 at Orange, Texas, by the Levingston Shipbuilding Co., launched on 19 October 1942, and commissioned on 29 May 1943 as USS ATR-43.