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USCGC RUSH (WHEC-723) Hamilton class high endurance cutter. Before she was the long serving Cutter at Sand Island, Honolulu, she was homeported in San Francisco, CA

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USCGC LAMAR (WTR-899) ex-USS LAMAR (PCE-899) WWII Patrol Craft built in 1945 in USN service until 1964

 

In USCG service 1965 to 1971. She was converted for use at the Coast Guard Yard and was commissioned there on 11 September 1965. She was assigned as a reserve training vessel to Monterey, California, where she provided training for reservists from the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th Coast Guard Districts

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US COAST GUARD (CUTTER) YARD, Baltimore Maryland

 

Many of the cutters I've posted on this topic were either converted or design built by the US Coast Guard Yard at Baltimore MD., including the Korean war era 95' ASW Patrol Boats

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On 9/8/2017 at 9:55 AM, Salvage Sailor said:

USCGC ALERT (WMEC-630) The last of the 210' Medium Endurance Cutters commissioned in 1969, current homeport Astoria Oregon

 

Another version of USCGC ALERT (WMEC-630)

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USCGC ALERT (WMEC-630)

 

RED Team - Rescue, Enforce Defend

 

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USCGC ALERT (WMEC-630)

 

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USCGC FIR (WLM-212) "The Oldest Tender In Service" - Lighthouse Tender in commission from 1939 to 1991

 

The United States Coast Guard Cutter Fir (WAGL/WLM 212) was the last lighthouse tender built specifically for the United States Lighthouse Service to resupply lighthouses and lightships, and to service buoys. Fir was built by the Moore Drydock Company in Oakland, California in 1939. On 22 March 1939, the U.S. Lighthouse Tender Fir was launched. She was steam driven with twin screws, 175 feet (53 m) in length, had a beam of 32 feet (9.8 m), drew 11 feet 3 inches (3.43 m) of water, and displaced 885 tons. Fir was fitted with a reinforced bow and stern, and an ice-belt at her water-line for icebreaking. She was built with classic lines and her spaces were lavishly appointed with mahogany, teak, and brass. The crew did intricate ropework throughout the ship. Currently being restored as a museum ship.

 

There is successor cutter also named Fir, USCGC Fir (WLB-213), currently in active use by the Coast Guard, which is a 225-foot (69 m) cutter. She was launched in 2003 and is based in Astoria, Oregon.

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USCGC WHITE BUSH (WLM-542) - White class buoy tender, Astoria Oregon

 

YF-257 Class Covered Lighter (Self-propelled)
Laid down, date unknown, as YF-339 at Basalt Rock Company, Napa, CA.
Launched, date unknown
Placed in service as YF-339 in May 1944
Placed out of service and transferred to the US Coast Guard, 11 August 1947
Commissioned as the US Coast Guard Coastal Buoy Tender USCGC White Bush (WAGL-542), 1 November 1947
Redisgnated (WLM-542) in the 1960s
Decommissioned, 16 September 1985 and returned to US Naval custody
Designated Miscellaneous Unclassified White Bush (IX-542)
Laid up in the Reserve Fleet
Final Disposition, disposed of as a target, 17 June 2004

 

From Navsource

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USCGC REDWOOD (WLM-685) First in class of the (then) new Buoy Tenders built by the Coast Guard Yard, in service 1964 to 1999

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Different version

 

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180' Buoy Tender USCGC SASSAFRAS patch, late 80's early 90's before her homeport was changed to Agana, Guam in 1997

 

Different version, USCGC SASSAFRAS (WLB-401), Coast Guard Base Sand Island, Honolulu, Hawaii (Oahu) 1980's

 

In service 1943 to 2003

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USCGC NORTHLAND (WMEC-904) Famous class medium endurance cutter commissioned in 1984, still in service at Portsmouth, VA

 

From Aztec Shore to Arctic Zone - Serving the Present to Honor the Past

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USCG STATION PAMAMA CITY, FL - 41' Utility Boat (large) CG-41345 that was stationed at Panama City depicted on the circa 1980's patch

 

The USCG Utility Boat, or UTB, was a standard utility boat used by the United States Coast Guard for a variety of inshore missions. The 41 ft (12 m) UTB was designed to operate under moderate weather and sea conditions where its speed and maneuverability made it an ideal platform.
The boats were welded 5086 aluminum, with a molded fiberglass superstructure and twin Cummins diesel engines with conventional shafts and propellers. They were capable of light towing, and were originally fitted with demountable fire monitors. Typical boat crew was three.
207 boats were constructed at the Coast Guard Yard in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1972 to 1981.
As of 2005 there were 172 operational boats. Beginning in 2008, these aging boats were retired and replaced with the Response Boat-Medium over a 6–10 year period. The last active 41' boat, CG-41410, was taken out of service in Grand Haven, Michigan on 31 July 2014. The 45-foot Response Boat – Medium is the class' replacement.

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For Garth Thompson, thanks for all of your courteous and constructive interactions with our members and your contributions to our forum, including your initiation of the seldom covered USCG topics on the forum.




USCGC CAPE FOX (WPB-95316) Type B Cape class cutter Built at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Baltimore the vessel was commissioned on August 22, 1955.


Caribbean Sea Dope Patrol - The ship was stationed at New London, Connecticut, until transferred to Riviera Beach, Florida, in 1964. After a major refit in 1980-82, she replaced the Cape York in late 1981 after the Cuban Boatlift in Key West, Florida, apart from the period between December 1983 to February 1984, when she conducted surveillance operations from St. George's, Grenada. The principal duties of Cape Fox were search and rescue and law enforcement operations; she was credited with numerous seizures of shipments of illegal drugs.


The cutter was decommissioned on June 30, 1989, and transferred to The Bahamas, where she served in the Royal Bahamas Defence Force under the name HMBS San Salvador II (P10) until 1999

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USCGC CHAUTAUQUA (WHEC-41) Owasco class high endurance cutter in service 1945 to 1973.

 

She was stationed in the Pacific out of San Francisco/Alameda from 1945 to 1954 but spent most of her service time as a Cutter in Honolulu from 1954 to 1972.

 

RED DEVILS

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USCGC COWSLIP (WLB-277) Cactus class sea going buoy tender built for the Coast Guard in WWII. In service 1942 to 1973. She was sold to a commercial firm but after the USCGC BLACKTHORN (WLB-391) was lost in a collision in Tampa Bay in 1980 (23 crewmen drowned), she was reacquired, recommissioned and served again from 1981 to 2002. This is her mid-1980's patch when she was homeported at Portsmouth, VA

 

Her later patches from her recommissioning are posted on this topic here http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/208706-coast-guard-the-other-naval-service-uscg-patches/?p=2100105

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USCGC POLAR STAR (AGB-10) & USCGC POLAR SEA (AGB-11) Commissioned in 1976 & 1978 respectively



Polar Star alongside her sister ship USCGC Polar Sea near McMurdo Station, Antarctica.



The upward angle of Polar Star's bow is designed so that the hull rides up onto the ice surface during icebreaking operations. Subsequently the ship's weight and forward motion combine to fracture the ice


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USCGC HARRIET LANE (WMEC-903) US Coast Guard Medium Endurance Cutter in service since 1984. Homeport Portsmouth, VA


Swiss Tex 1984 commissioning patch

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USCGC GLACIER (AGB-4) In USCG Service, Operation Deep Freeze, Hilborn Hamburger patch circa late 1960's



Improved Wind class Icebreaker in USN service 1955 to 1966. She participated in 11 Deep Freeze operations for the USN. Later in USCG service 1966 to 1987


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USCGC SOUTHWIND (WAGB-280) Wind class Icebreaker in Coast Guard Service 1943 to 1945 and again from 1955 to 1974



USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280) was a Wind-class icebreaker that served in the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Southwind (WAG-280), the Soviet Navy as the Admiral Makarov, the United States Navy as USS Atka (AGB-3) and again in the U.S. Coast Guard as USCGC Southwind (WAGB-280).


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