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YOCONA cutters (1943-1944/1980-1981)


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Acushnet 1978

Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
WMEC6 Escape   Basalt Rock, Napa 24.8.1942 22.11.1942 20.11.1943 // 14.3.1981 deleted 6.1995
WMEC167 Acushnet (ex-Shackle)   Basalt Rock, Napa 26.10.1942 1.4.1943 5.2.1944 // 1980 deleted 3.2011
WMEC168 Yocona (ex-Seize)   Basalt Rock, Napa 28.9.1943 8.4.1944 3.11.1944 // 1980 deleted 6.1996


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1557

Displacement full, t

1745

Length, m

64.9

Breadth, m

12.5

Draught, m

4.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Cooper-Bessemer GSB-9 diesel-generators, 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

15.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil 300

Endurance, nm(kts)9000(8)
Armament

none

Electronic equipment

2x SPS-64(v)1 radars

Complement

72



Standard scale images


<i>Acushnet </i>1980
Acushnet 1980


Graphics


  <i>Acushnet</i> 2000
  Acushnet 2000
<i>Acushnet </i>1978
Acushnet 1978


Project history

Former USN salvage ships, Acushnet and Yocona were commissioned by USCG as tugs in 1946 and reclassified as cutters in 1980.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.