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AT-109 / ATF-109 Potawatomi


USS Potowatomi (ATF-109) was transferred to Chile and renamed Janequeo
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)
Abnaki Class Fleet Ocean Tug:
  • Laid down, 19 October 1942, at United Engineering Co., Alameda, CA.
  • Launched, 3 April 1943
  • Commissioned USS Potawatomi (AT-109), 12February 1944
  • Redesignated Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-109), 15 May 1944
  • Decommissioned, 28 April 1948, at Naval Shipyard San Francisco, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Stockton, CA.
  • Reassigned to Alameda Group, 27 August 1948
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration in August 1961 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Flee, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Loaded to Chile under the Military Assistance Act in February 1963 and renamed Janequeo
  • Final Disposition, sunk in 1965
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,240 t.(lt) 1,589 t.(fl)
    Length 205'
    Beam 38' 6"
    Draft 15' 4"
    Speed 16.5 kts.
    Complement 85
    Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two twin 40mm gun mounts, two single 20mm guns
    Propulsion diesel-electric, four Alco diesel main engines driving four General Electric generators and three General Motors 3-268A auxiliary services engines, single screw
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    Potawatomi 31k Potawatomi (ATF-109) moored pierside, date and place unknown. Submitted by Leon Hays, for J W Hays to National
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