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(Redirected from USS Potawatomi (ATF-109)) For other ships with the same name, see Chilean ship Janequeo.


History
Sister ship USS Abnaki (right), alongside a Soviet trawler
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 and 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, 3,000 shp (2,200 kW)
Speed	16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Complement	85
Armament	1 × single 3 in (76 mm) cal. dual-purpose gun mount 2 × single 40 mm AA gun mounts 2 × single 20 mm AA gun mounts

The Chilean tugboat Janequeo (ATF-65) was an Abnaki-class tug of the Chilean Navy that sunk 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.

Bahía San Pedro, located at 40°53′29.24″S 73°51′1.59″W / 40.8914556°S 73.8504417°W / -40.8914556; -73.8504417 (Janequeo (ATF-65))

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External links

Chilean Navy website, Janequeo (5.), retrieved on 26 September 2013
NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, USS Potawatomi (ATF-109), ex USS Potawatomi (AT-109) (1944)

Abnaki-class tugs

Other operators
Argentine Navy Irigoyen class	Comandante General Irigoyen (ex-Cahuilla) Francisco de Gurruchaga (ex-Luiseno) Suboficial Castillo (ex-Takelma)
Chilean Navy	Aldea (ex-Arikara) Janequeo (ex-Potawatomi)
Colombian National Navy	Sebastián De Belalcázar (ex-Jicarilla) Rodrigo de Bastidas (ex-Hidatsa)
Ecuadorian Navy	Chimborazo (ex-Chowanoc) Los Rios / Cayambe (ex-Cusabo)
Mexican Navy	Chac / Cora (ex-Hitchiti) Ehactl / Yaqui (ex-Abnaki) Kukulkan / Otomi (ex-Molala) Seri (ex-Cocopa)
Republic of China Navy	Da Han (ex-Tawakoni) Da Gang (ex-Achomawi) Da Tai (ex-Shakori)
Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela	Felipe Larrazábal (R-11) (ex-Tolowa) Felipe Larrazábal (R-12) (ex-Utina) Antonio Picardi (ex-Nipmuc) Miguel Rodriguez (ex-Salinan)

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v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in November 1944
Shipwrecks	1 Nov: USS Abner Read, TA20, HMS Whitaker 2 Nov: Fort Lee 3 Nov: Akikaze 5 Nov: Kiebitz, Nachi, PB-107, TA21 7 Nov: USS Albacore, HM LST-420 8 Nov: USS Growler 9 Nov: U-537 10 Nov: Gokoku Maru, USS Mount Hood 11 Nov: Hamanami, Naganami, USS Scamp, Shimakaze, U-771, U-1200, Wakatsuki 12 Nov: HMAS Marlean, Tirpitz 13 Nov: Akebono, Akishimo, Hatsuharu, Hatsu Maru, I-12, I-38, Kiso, Okinami 17 Nov: USS LST-6, Mayasan Maru, NKI 01, Shin'yō (ex-Scharnhorst) 18 Nov: I-41, Seisho Maru 20 Nov: USS Mississinewa, HMAS ML 827 21 Nov: Kongō, Urakaze 22 Nov: Hokkai Maru, HMS Stratagem 24 Nov: Hansa 25 Nov: Kumano, HMCS Shawinigan, Shimotsuki, Sumida, U-482, Yasoshima 27 Nov: Rigel 28 Nov: U-80, PB-105, Yu 2 29 Nov: Fushimi, I-365, Shinano Unknown date: Mogador, U-479, U-1020
Other incidents	10 Nov: USS Abarenda, USS Alhena, USS Argonne, USS Aries, USS Cacapon, USS Cebu, HMS Hydra, USS Kyne, USS Lyman, USS Mindanao, USS Oberrender, USS Petrof Bay, USS Piedmont, USS Potawatomi, USS Preserver, USS Saginaw Bay, USS Talbot, USS Walter C. Wann, USS YMS-238, USS Young 13 Nov: U-1052 17 Nov: HMAS ML 827, Seisho Maru 23 Nov: Gus W. Darnell 27 Nov: USS Gar 28 Nov: USS Spearfish 30 Nov: HMS Duff
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v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1965
Shipwrecks	1 Jan: Catala 13 Feb: Spyros Amrenakis 13 Apr: Bremerhaven 7 May: Kitak, Cedarville 15 Aug: Janequeo 18 Oct: Marlin 13 Nov: Yarmouth Castle 18 Nov: Blue Fin 24 Nov: Santa Kyriaki 17 Dec: Noemi 27 Dec: Sea Gem
Other incidents	25 Jan: Queen Elizabeth 2 March: K-159 30 April: King Abdelaziz May (unknown date): Yousuf Baksh 13 Jul: HMS Tiptoe 18 Jul: USS Frank Knox 7 Sep: Amaryllis 9 Sep: USS AFDM-2 Unknown date: K-33
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