Category:Commandant Charcot (ship, 1943)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Ailanthus class netlayer, later polar ship
• Built by: Pollack Stockton Shipbuilding Co., Stockton, California
• Yard No:
• Keel laid: 1942.10.15
• Launched: 1943.05.02
• Commissioned: 1943.10.18
• Length over all: 194.5 ft
• Beam: 37 ft
• GT:
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History[edit]

• Built as Ironwood
• 1943 Named USS Lancewood (YN-67); Flag: United States
• 1944.01 Reclassified USS Lancewood (AN-48); Flag: United States
• 1946.02.11 Decommissioned
• 1947.04 Renamed Atiette; Flag: Guadeloupe
  • Owner: Robert A. Martinolich
• 1947 Renamed Commandant Charcot; Flag: France
  • Converted to polar use
  • Owner: French government
• 1963 Scrapped