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CHEROKEE cutters (1940-1945/1968-1980)


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Tamaroa 1979

Ships


No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
WMEC76 Ute   United Engineering, Alameda 27.2.1942 24.6.1942 13.12.1942 // 20.3.1981 for disposal 5.1988
WMEC85 Lipan   United Engineering, Alameda 30.5.1942 17.9.1942 29.4.1943 // 30.9.1980 for disposal 3.1988
WMEC150 Avoyel   Charleston SB & Drydock 25.3.1944 9.8.1944 8.1.1945 // 1968 sold 9.1969
WMEC153 Chilula   Charleston SB & Drydock   1.12.1944 5.4.1945 // 1968 for disposal 6.1991
WMEC165 Cherokee   Bethlehem SB, Staten Island   10.11.1939 26.4.1940 // 1968 for disposal 1.1990
WMEC166 Tamaroa (ex-Zuni)   Commercial Iron Wks, Portland     9.10.1943 // 1968 preserved 2.1994


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1217
Displacement full, t

1731
Length, m

59.4 pp 62.5 oa
Breadth, m

11.7
Draught, m

5.18
No of shafts

1
Machinery

4 General Electric 12-278 diesel-generators, 1 electric motor
Power, h. p.

3000
Max speed, kts

16.2
Fuel, t

diesel oil 315
Endurance, nm(kts)15000(8)
Armament

WMEC150, 153, 165, 166: 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22

WMEC76, 85: none
Electronic equipment

2x SPS-64 radars
Complement

71


Standard scale images


<i>Ute </i>1980
Ute 1980


Graphics


  <i>Chilula</i> 1988
  Chilula 1988
<i>Tamaroa </i>1979
Tamaroa 1979


Project history

Former USN fleet tugs of Cherokee and Navajo (WMEC153) classes. Four ships were transferred to USCG from Navy in 1946-1956 as tugs and redesignated as cutters in 1968, two more were transferred in 1980-1981.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.