USS ATA-217
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Tesota |
Namesake | The tesota tree |
Ordered | as YN-95 |
Builder | Canulette Shipbuilding Co., Slidell, Louisiana |
Laid down | 11 December 1943 as Tesota (YN-95) |
Launched | 29 July 1944 |
Commissioned | 16 January 1945 as USS ATA-217 |
Decommissioned | 7 May 1946, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California |
Reclassified | AN-71, 20 January 1944; USS ATA-217, 10 August 1944 |
Stricken | 21 May 1946 |
Fate | Burned off Mexico, 17 February 1949 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Palo Blanco-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) |
Propulsion | diesel-electric, single screw, 2,500hp |
Speed | 12.1 knots |
Complement | 57 officers and enlisted |
Armament | two single 40 mm AA gun mounts |
USS ATA-217 was an ATA-214-class tug of the United States Navy built near the end of World War II. Originally laid down as Tesota (YN-95), a net tender of the Ailanthus class, she was redesignated as AN-71, a net layer, before launch. Before completion, the name Tesota was cancelled and the ship was named ATA-217, an unnamed auxiliary ocean tug.
Career
[edit]ATA-217 was laid down as the net tender Tesota (YN-95) on 11 December 1943 at Slidell, Louisiana, by the Canulette Shipbuilding Company; was reclassified a net laying ship and redesignated AN-71 on 20 January 1944; and was launched on 29 July 1944. However, the name Tesota was canceled on 10 August 1944, and the ship was reclassified an auxiliary ocean tug and re-designated ATA-217 on the same day. She was commissioned on 16 January 1945. Following a short shakedown cruise early in February 1945, the tug departed Norfolk, Virginia, for Hawaii and arrived at her home port, Pearl Harbor, on 1 March. After serving there for more than a year, the ship proceeded to the West Coast of the United States.
ATA-217 was decommissioned at Mare Island, California, on 7 May, and was struck from the Navy List on 21 May 1946. ATA-217 was transferred to the U.S. Maritime Commission on 25 March 1947 and was sold the same day to Martinolick Shipbuilding Co., San Francisco, California.
References
[edit]- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive – YN-95 / AN-71 Tesota – ATA-217