USS Sotoyomo (ATA-121)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Sotoyomo |
| Builder: | Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, Texas |
| Laid down: | 7 September 1942 |
| Launched: | 19 October 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 29 May 1943, as USS ATR-43 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 April 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 6 June 1951 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 July 1955 |
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| Struck: | 1 September 1961 |
| Fate: | Sold to the Republic of Mexico Navy, June 1963 |
 Mexico
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| Name: | ARM Sotoyomo |
| Acquired: | June 1963 |
| Fate: | Unknown |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Sotoyomo-class auxiliary fleet tug |
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| Length: | 143 ft (44 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric engines, single screw |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement: | 45 |
| Armament: | 1 × 3"/50 caliber gun |
USS Sotoyomo (ATR-43/ATA-121) was a rescue tug of the United States Navy that served during World War II and the early 1950s, and was sold to Mexico in 1963.
The ship was laid down on 7 September 1942 at Orange, Texas, by the Levingston Shipbuilding Co., launched on 19 October 1942, and commissioned on 29 May 1943 as USS ATR-43.
In June 1943, ATR-43 sailed from Orange; proceeded via New Orleans and Key West to Hampton Roads; and arrived at Norfolk on the 29th. On 21 July, after shakedown exercises and eight days in drydock at the Norfolk Navy Yard, ATR-43 headed back to Key West. For the next 10 months, she operated in the Caribbean Sea and the south Atlantic. The tug visited Trinidad; Bermuda; and Recife and Belem, Brazil. She was redesignated ATA-121 on 15 May 1944. She departed Bermuda on 8 May 1945; transited the Panama Canal; and reached San Diego, California, on 1 June. On the 7th, she sailed, via Puget Sound and Pearl Harbor for the western Pacific.
On Independence Day 1945, she sailed for Eniwetok Atoll with the barracks craft APL-2, floating workshop YR-61, and harbor tug YTL-550 in tow. On the 22nd, she entered Eniwetok Lagoon; and, the next day, she departed to tow YTL-550 to Kwajalein. She arrived at Kwajalein on 25 July and sailed for Pearl Harbor the following day. She made Pearl on 2 August and remained there until after Japan surrendered.
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