Photo US Navy by Allan Owen.
Built 1943
Displacement 1,646 t.(fl)
Length 205'
Beam 38' 6"
Draft 15' 3"
Speed 16 kts.
Complement 8 Officers, 68 Enlisted
Armament
One single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two twin 40mm AA gun mounts, two single 20mm AA gun mounts
Propulsion diesel-electric, four General Motors 12-278A diesel main engines driving four General Electric generators and three General Motors 3-268A auxiliary services engines, single screw, 3,600 shp
On 14/Sep/43, ATF 81 Bannock departed Trinidad towing one Floating Drydock (YFD 27 or YFD 38), in company of two Four stacks Destroyers, along with AT-82 CARIB. On 26 Sep, the ships crossed the Equator arriving at Natal at 7 Oct/43. Both ships under the Fourth Fleet underwent an active role in gunnery practice with ships of both US and Brazilian Navy including one submarine.
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In the picture Bannock is seen at harbor. Photo. www.navsource.org