Salvage Sailor Posted January 14, 2018 Share #201 Posted January 14, 2018 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 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted January 20, 2018 Share #202 Posted January 20, 2018 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 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted January 20, 2018 Share #203 Posted January 20, 2018 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 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted February 24, 2018 Share #207 Posted February 24, 2018 Nice additions Mike, USCG Search and Rescue - East Coast SAR Wet Crewman Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted February 24, 2018 Share #208 Posted February 24, 2018 ....and one more, a current and jazzy USCG patch New Orleans Rescue Swimmer Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 13, 2018 Share #209 Posted March 13, 2018 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) USCGC ALERT (WMEC-630) RED Team - Rescue, Enforce Defend USCGC ALERT (WMEC-630) Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted March 24, 2018 Share #210 Posted March 24, 2018 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. Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted April 7, 2018 Share #211 Posted April 7, 2018 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 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted April 14, 2018 Share #212 Posted April 14, 2018 COAST GUARD ARTIST - The Coast Guard Art Program (COGAP) https://www.uscg.mil...ty/Art-Program/ Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted April 14, 2018 Share #213 Posted April 14, 2018 USCGC REDWOOD (WLM-685) First in class of the (then) new Buoy Tenders built by the Coast Guard Yard, in service 1964 to 1999 Different version Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted May 19, 2018 Share #214 Posted May 19, 2018 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 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted June 16, 2018 Share #215 Posted June 16, 2018 USCGC HORNBEAM (WLB-394) Iris class Buoy Tender in service 1944 to 1999, Cape May, New Jersey Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted July 15, 2018 Share #216 Posted July 15, 2018 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 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted August 18, 2018 Share #217 Posted August 18, 2018 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. Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted September 2, 2018 Share #218 Posted September 2, 2018 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 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted October 5, 2018 Share #219 Posted October 5, 2018 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 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted November 17, 2018 Share #220 Posted November 17, 2018 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 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted November 18, 2018 Share #221 Posted November 18, 2018 USCGC POLAR STAR (AGB-10) Commissioned in 1976 - Arctic winter cruise 1984 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted November 18, 2018 Share #222 Posted November 18, 2018 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 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted January 10, 2019 Share #223 Posted January 10, 2019 USCGC HARRIET LANE (WMEC-903) US Coast Guard Medium Endurance Cutter in service since 1984. Homeport Portsmouth, VA Swiss Tex 1984 commissioning patch Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted January 15, 2019 Share #224 Posted January 15, 2019 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 Link to comment
Salvage Sailor Posted January 21, 2019 Share #225 Posted January 21, 2019 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). Link to comment
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