USS Mahopac (AT-29)

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USS Mahopac in 1921
History
US flag 48 stars.svgUnited States
NameUSS Mahopac
Builder Puget Sound Navy Yard
Laid down30 November 1918
Launched28 February 1919
Commissioned20 October 1919
Decommissioned12 September 1946
Stricken29 October 1946
IdentificationAT-29
FateTransferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 28 April 1947
General characteristics
Class and type Bagaduce-classfleet tug
Displacement1,000 tonnes (980 long tons; 1,100 short tons)
Length156 ft 8 in (47.75 m)
Beam30 ft (9.1 m)
Draft14 ft 7 in (4.45 m)
Speed12.4 knots (23.0 km/h; 14.3 mph)
Complement44
Armament2 x 3" gun mounts

USS Mahopac (ATA-29) was a United States Navy fleet tug launched in 1919. [1] She was a Bagaduce-class ship, [2] a class of 19 steel tugs begun in 1918 which preceded the Navajo-class (later renamed the Cherokee).

The Bagaduce-class tugs were designed to serve as minesweepers and conduct heavy-duty towing work at navy yards. [2] Mahopac was decommissioned in 1947.

It was one of three vessels of that name in the U.S. Navy to date, after the town of Lake Mahopac, New York. The first was the USS Mahopac (1864), a Canonicus-class Civil War monitor, which served until 1889; the third, USS Mahopac (ATA-196), was a Sotoyomo-class rescue tug, launched in 1944 and struck in 1976.

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