Chilean tugboat Janequeo

Sister ship USS Abnaki (right), alongside a Soviet trawler
History
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 nm south of Corral, Chile, with lost of 51 men
General characteristics
Class and type	Abnaki-class tug
Displacement	1,240 t.(lt) 1,675 t.(fl)
Length	205 feet (62 m)
Beam	38 feet 6 inches (11.73 m)
Draft	15 feet 4 inches (4.67 m)
Propulsion	Diesel-electric 4x750 hp Busch-Sulzer BS-539 Diesel main engines driving four General Electric main drive generators and two 1500 hp 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, 3000shp
Speed	16.5 kn
Complement	85
Armament	one single 3 in (76 mm) cal. dual purpose gun mount two single 40 mm AA gun mounts two single 20 mm AA gun mounts

Janequeo (ATF-65) was a tug of the Chilean Navy that sunk on 15 August 1965 during a devastating storm at the Bay of Manquemapu, 60 nm south of Corral, Chile with the loss of 51 men as she helped the Leucotón (PP-61) that had run aground.

Bahía San Pedro, located at 40°53′29.24″S 73°51′1.59″W

See also

• Sinking of Janequeo and Leucotón

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)