History | |
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United States | |
Name | Tonawanda |
Namesake | Tonawanda Creek |
Builder | Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin |
Laid down | 12 September 1944 |
Launched | 14 November 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Charles N. Barnum |
Commissioned | 9 May 1945 |
Decommissioned | 9 August 1946, at Orange Texas |
Homeport | Melville, Rhode Island and Tiburon, California |
Identification |
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Recommissioned | 18 March 1952, at Orange, Texas |
Decommissioned | 18 December 1959, at Bayonne, New Jersey |
Fate | Leased to Haiti under terms of the Military Assistance Program, 25 May 1960 |
Notes | Sold outright to Haiti in late 1979 |
Haiti | |
Name | Jean-Jacques Dessalines |
Namesake | Jean-Jacques Dessalines |
Acquired |
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Identification | MH-101 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Cohoes-class net laying ship |
Displacement | 775 tons |
Length | 168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) |
Beam | 33 ft 10 in (10.31 m) |
Draft | 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m) |
Propulsion | Diesel direct drive, 2,500 hp (1,900 kW), single propeller |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 46 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 1 x 3"/50 caliber gun |
USS Tonawanda (YN-115/AN-89) was a Cohoes-class net laying ship which was assigned to protect U.S. Navy ships and harbors during World War II by deploying and maintaining anti-submarine nets. Her World War II career was short due to the war coming to an end, but, post-war, she was reactivated in 1952 and served the Navy until 1959 when she was put into reserve and eventually transferred to Haiti as Jean-Jacques Dessalines.