USS Mishawaka (YTB-764)

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Career (USA)
Name: Mishawaka (YTB-764)
Builder: Southern Shipbuilding Corp., Slidell, LA
Laid down: 1 February 1962,
Launched: 3 January 1963
Completed: 19 April 1963
In service: April 1963
Struck: 28 October 2002
Status: sold by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) to JE Ventures LP, Nederland, Texas, for commercial service
General characteristics
Class and type: Natick-class tug
Displacement: 283 t.(lt) 356 t.(fl)
Length: 109 feet (33 m)
Beam: 31 feet (9.4 m)
Draft: 14 feet (4.3 m)
Propulsion: diesel, single screw
Speed: 12 knots
Complement: 12

Mishawaka (YTB‑764) was laid down in February 1962, by the Southern Shipbuilding Corp., Slidell, La.; launched January 1963; and named Mishawaka, effective 17 January 1963. She reported for duty in the 11th Naval District, headquartered at San Diego, in April 1963, where she remains into 1969.

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