USS Wakonda (YTB-528)
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Wakonda |
Namesake | "Wakonda", A term used by Native Americans of the Sioux family when praying, and also applied by them to objects or phenomena regarded as sacred or mysterious |
Builder | , Jacksonville, Florida (planned) |
Laid down | Never |
Notes | Construction contract cancelled October 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | tug |
Displacement | 310 tons (full) |
Length | 101 ft 0 in (30.78 m) |
Beam | 28 ft 0 in (8.53 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 7 in (2.92 m) |
Speed | 12 knots |
Complement | 10 |
USS Wakonda (YTB-528) was a large yard tug proposed for the United States Navy that was not built.
Wakonda was a large yard tug slated to be built at Jacksonville, Florida, by the , but the contract for her construction was cancelled in October 1945. The ship was never built.
References[]
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
Categories:
- Tugs of the United States Navy
- Cancelled ships of the United States Navy