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USS Contocook (AT-36)

Bagaduce Class Fleet Tug
  • Laid down, date unknown, at Staten Island Shipbuilding Co., Port Richmond, N.Y.
  • Launched, 12 January 1920
  • Commissioned USS Contocook (AT-36), 20 August 1920, LTjg. T. A. Patterson in command
  • Decommissioned, 27 November 1933, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Sold, 8 February 1934, for commercial service
  • Purchased by the Royal Navy from commercial service in 1940
  • Commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Sea Giant (W-125)
  • Paid off (decommissioned) in 1946
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications
    Displacement 778 t.(lt)
    Length 156' 8"
    Beam 30' 2"
    Draft 12' 4"
    Speed 13.6 kts.
    Complement 50
    Armament
    US Navy
    two 3"/50 gun mounts
    one machine gun
    Royal Navy
    one twin .5in AA gun mount aft
    two machine guns on the bridge
    Propulsion type unknown, single screw
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    USS Contocook (AT-36)
    BB-4 Iowa 91k USS Contocook (AT-36) is in the Pedro Miguel Lock, Panama Canal, astern of USS Coast Battleship No.4, while transiting the Panama Canal, 10 February 1923. SS Bethore is at right in the adjacent lock.
    US Navy photo # NH 83700 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 Ramon Jackson
    HMS Sea Giant (W-125)
    Contocook 61k Ex-USS Contocook (AT-36) in Royal Naval service as HMS Sea Giant (W-125) underway, date and location unknown. Photo from the collections of the British Imperial War Museum. Robet Hurst
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Commanding Officers
    01LTjg. Patterson, T. A.20 August 1920 - ~1923
    02LT. Legere, Frederick J.,~1923 - ~
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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