USS Pocahontas (YT-266)
Red Cloud (YTB-268), a type V2-ME-A1, same as Pocahontas, alongside David C. Shanks, outside the Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco Bay, California, 1950s | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Port Blakely |
| Namesake | Port Blakely |
| Owner | Maritime Commission |
| Ordered | as type (V2-ME-A1) hull, MCE hull 433 |
| Awarded | 23 August 1941 |
| Builder | Birchfield Boiler, Inc., Tacoma, Washington |
| Cost | $301,042 |
| Yard number | 1 |
| Laid down | 27 October 1941 |
| Launched | 1 May 1942 |
| Status | Transferred to the US Navy, 31 December 1942 |
| United States | |
| Name | Pocahontas |
| Namesake | Pocahontas |
| Owner | US Navy |
| Acquired | 31 December 1942 |
| Reclassified | |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Scrapped, 25 February 2019 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Hiawatha-class tugboat |
| Type | Harbor tug |
| Displacement | 237 long tons (241 t) |
| Length | 100 ft (30 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 7 in (2.92 m) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | Single propeller |
| Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Crew | 14 |
| Armament | 2 × 0.50 in (12.70 mm) heavy machine guns |
USS Pocahontas (YT/YTB/YTM-266), was a type V2-ME-A1 harbor tug that entered service in the United States Navy in 1943, and was sold in 1976. She was the third ship to bear the name Pocahontas.