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AT-36 Contocook


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.
  • 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, sold, 8 February 1934, 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 Contocook (AT-36) is in the Pedro Miguel Lock, Panama Canal, astern of 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-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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