 Sister ship USS Abnaki (right), alongside a Soviet trawler | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Potawatomi |
| Laid down | 19 October 1942 |
| Launched | 3 April 1943 |
| Commissioned | 12 February 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 28 April 1948 |
| Reclassified | Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-109), 15 May 1944 |
| Fate | Sold to Chile |
 Chile | |
| Name | Janequeo |
| Commissioned | February 1963 |
| Fate | Sunk in Caleta Manquemapu, 60 nmi (110 km; 69 mi) south of Corral, Chile, with loss of 51 men |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Abnaki-class tug |
| Displacement | 1,240 t.(lt) 1,675 t.(fl) |
| Length | 205 ft (62 m) |
| Beam | 38 ft 6 in (11.73 m) |
| Draft | 15 ft 4 in (4.67 m) |
| Propulsion | Diesel-electric 4 × 750 hp (560 kW) Busch-Sulzer BS-539 diesel main engines driving four General Electric main drive generators and two 1,500 hp (1,100 kW) pulsation motors three diesel-drive General Motors 3-268A auxiliary services engines driving three ship's service generators two 200 kW 120 V/240 V DC one 100 kW 120 V/240 V DC single propeller, 3,000Contentsshp (2,200 kW) |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Complement | 85 |
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The Chilean tugboat Janequeo (ATF-65) was an Abnaki-class tug of the Chilean Navy, formerly the USS Potawatomi (ATF-109) [1] .
Potawatomi was damaged by the November 1944 USS Mount Hood (AE-11) explosion.
Janequeo sank on 15 August 1965 during a devastating storm in the Bay of Manquemapu, 60 nautical miles (110 km; 69 mi) south of Corral, Chile with the loss of 51 men as she helped Leucotón that had run aground.
