Yaupon (ATA-218) in c.1945
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Yaupon (ATA-218) |
Namesake | Yaupon holly tree |
Builder | Canulette Shipbuilding Co., Slidell, Louisiana |
Laid down | 29 January 1944 |
Launched | 16 September 1944 |
Commissioned | 10 March 1945 |
Decommissioned | 26 March 1946 |
Reclassified | ordered as YN-96, then AN-96 |
Stricken | 17 April 1946 |
Fate | Most likely scrapped sometime after 1947 |
General characteristics | |
Type | ATA-214-class auxiliary fleet tug |
Displacement | 1,275 tons |
Length | 194 ft 6 in (59.28 m) |
Beam | 34 ft 7 in (10.54 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 1 in (4.29 m) (full load) |
Propulsion | diesel-electric engines, single screw |
Speed | 12.1 knots |
Complement | 57 officers and enlisted |
Armament | two 40 mm gun mounts |
USS Yaupon (ATA-218) was an ATA-214-class tug of the United States Navy built near the end of World War II. Originally laid down as a net tender of the Ailanthus class, she was redesignated before being launched. The ship was commissioned on 10 March 1945. Yaupon had a brief naval career, and was decommissioned on 26 March 1946.