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Diligent (YT-113)

District Harbor Tug:

Built by Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, WI (USSB hull 2155)

Completed for US Shipping Board as tug Diligent (ON 218940), August 1919

Transferred from USSB to Navy, 30 April 1925

Acquired by the Navy, 30 April 1925

Commissioned USS Diligent (YT-113), 20 May 1925

Assigned to Third Naval District, 1925 - 1935

Decommissioned, 13 July 1935

Struck from the Naval Register, 23 December 1935

Sold to Richard S. Cors, New York, NY, as tug Diligent, 1936

Sold to Mathiasen Bros., New York, NY, 1942

Sold to Meseck Towing & Transportation Co., New York, NY, 1944

Renamed Catherine Meseck, 1945

Final dispostion, dismantled 1955

Specifications:
Displacement 270 tons
Length 101' 4"
Beam 24' 7"
Draft 12' 2"
Speed 10 knots
Complement unknown
Armament unknown
Propulsion

2-cylinder compound steam (18" 38" x 26"), 450hp

single screw

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