For other ships with the same name, see USS Catawba.
USS Catawba
History
United States
Name
Catawba
Namesake
Catawba River
Builder
Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works
Launched
15 February 1945
Commissioned
1945
Decommissioned
1972
Fate
transferred to Argentine Navy, 1972
Stricken
1 February 1972
Argentina
Name
Comodoro Somellera
Acquired
10 February 1972
Commissioned
10 February 1972
Out of service
1998
Fate
Sunk during storm in Port of Ushuaia in 1998, hull recovered and stored before use as a target in 2017
General characteristics
Class and type
Sotoyomo-class tugboat
Displacement
835 tons (848 t) (full)
Length
143 ft (44 m)
Beam
33 ft 10 in (10.31 m)
Draft
13 ft 2 in (4.01 m)
Propulsion
Diesel-electric engines,
1,500 shp (1,100 kW) single screw
Speed
13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement
45–49
Armament
as Catawba
1 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 gun
2 × twin 40 mm AA guns
as Somellera
1 × 40 mm /60 Bofors gun
2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
ARA Comodoro Somellera (A-10) was a Sotoyomo-class rescue tug that served in the Argentine Navy from 1972 to 1998 classified as an aviso. She previously served in the US Navy as USS Catawba (ATA-210) from 1945 to 1972. After being damaged beyond repair in 1998, she was deliberately sunk as a weapons target in November 2017.
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