ARA Comodoro Somellera
USS Catawba | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Catawba |
| Namesake | Catawba River |
| Builder | Gulfport Boiler & Welding Works |
| Launched | 15 February 1945 |
| Commissioned | 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 1972 |
| Fate | transferred to Argentine Navy, 1972 |
| Stricken | 1 February 1972 |
| Argentina | |
| Name | Comodoro Somellera |
| Acquired | 10 February 1972 |
| Commissioned | 10 February 1972 |
| Out of service | 1998 |
| Fate | Sunk during storm in Port of Ushuaia in 1998, hull recovered and stored before use as a target in 2017 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Sotoyomo-class tugboat |
| Displacement | 835 tons (848 t) (full) |
| Length | 143 ft (44 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft 10 in (10.31 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 2 in (4.01 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement | 45–49 |
| Armament |
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ARA Comodoro Somellera (A-10) was a Sotoyomo-class rescue tug that served in the Argentine Navy from 1972 to 1998 classified as an aviso. She previously served in the US Navy as USS Catawba (ATA-210) from 1945 to 1972. After being damaged beyond repair in 1998, she was deliberately sunk as a weapons target in November 2017.