USS Challenge (ATA-201)
{{short description|Tugboat of the United States Navy}}
{{other ships|USS Challenge}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=USS Challenge ATA-201.jpg |Ship caption=Challenge laid up after being decommissioned }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{USN flag|1947}} |Ship name=USS Challenge |Ship namesake= |Ship ordered= as Rescue Ocean Tug ATR-128, redesignated Auxiliary Fleet Tug ATA-201, 15 May 1944 |Ship builder= Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works, Port Arthur, Texas |Ship laid down= 3 August 1944 |Ship launched= 23 September 1944 |Ship acquired= 22 November 1944 |Ship commissioned= 15 September 1944 |Ship decommissioned= 23 December 1947 |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship struck= 1 September 1962 |Ship renamed=Challenge (ATA-201), 16 July 1948 |Ship reclassified= |Ship homeport= |Ship identification=*{{IMO Number|8424135}}
|Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honors= |Ship fate= |Ship status=In service as Saje Commander |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class=Sotoyomo-class auxiliary fleet tug |Ship displacement=*{{convert|610|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} light
|Ship length={{convert|143|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|34|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship draft={{convert|15|ft|m|abbr=on}} |Ship depth= |Ship hold depth= |Ship propulsion= Diesel-electric engines, single screw |Ship speed={{convert|13|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= |Ship complement=7 officers, 42 enlisted men |Ship armament=*1 × single 3"/50 caliber gun
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USS Challenge (ATA-201) was a Sotoyomo-class auxiliary fleet tug acquired by the United States Navy for service during and after World War II.
Challenge was planned and authorized as Rescue Ocean Tug ATR-128 and was reclassified Auxiliary Fleet Tug ATA-201, 15 May 1944. She was laid down on 3 August 1944 at Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works, Port Arthur, Texas, launched on 23 September 1944, delivered to the Navy on 22 November 1944, commissioned as USS ATA-201 on 15 September 1944.
East Coast activity
Challenge served on the U.S. East Coast. Very little data is available. However, Navy records indicate she towed {{USS|Bangust|DE-739|3}} from Green Cove Springs, Florida, to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1947.
Final disposition
Challenge was decommissioned on 23 December 1947 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 September 1962. The ship was named USS Challenge (ATA-201) on 16 July 1948. She was sold for scrapping on 1 October 1976 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, but was resold in 1978 into commercial service. As of 2017, she was operating out of Honduras under the name Saje Commander.
References
{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c5/challenge-ii.htm}}
External links
- {{navsource|09/38/38201|USS Challenge (ATR-128/ATA-201)}}
{{Sotoyomo class tug}}
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