Prohibition

The Twenties was an era of growth for the Coast Guard first in response to Prohibition
and then in response to increased transoceanic commercial airline flights
10 new classes were commissioned
New small boats came into service
The Academy got a new training cutter
Most of these Cutters fought through WWII

75′ “Six Bitters” Patrol Boat
Commissioned as patrol boats without hull numbers
Designed for prohibition – excellent patrol boats – un-named
Model: Yes

Designation	Name	Service	Comments	Pictures

USCGC	Un-Named	1925 – 1936	Numbered – Un-named	CGH NS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS NS

100′ “100 Footers” Patrol Boat

Commissioned as patrol boats without hull numbers
Designed for prohibition – proved uneconomical
Model: No

Designation	Name	Service	Comments	Pictures

USCGC	Corwin	1925 – 1936	To the Navy	NS
USCGC	Dallas	1925 – 1936	To the Navy	NS
USCGC	Dexter	1925 – 1936	To the Navy	NS
USCGC	Eagle	1925 – 1936	To the Navy
USCGC	Forward	1925 – 1947	Converted to tender in 1941
USCGC	Gallatin	1926 – 1935	To the Navy	NS
USCGC	Mahoning	1926 – 1935
USCGC	Nansemond (later Phlox)	1926 – 1949	Converted to buoy tender
USCGC	Naugatuck	1926 – 1935	To the Navy
USCGC	Patriot	1926 – 1938	To the Navy	NS
USCGC	Perry	1926 – 1937
USCGC	Petrel (later Pine)	1926 – 1940	Converted to buoy tender
USCGC	Wolcott	1926 – 1936

Floating Base
4 concrete and 2 wooden vessels acquired as mobile floating headquarters
Provided offshore support for prohibition patrol cutters
Model: No

Designation	Name	Service	Comments	Pictures

USCGC	Argus (ex Major E. Picket)	1925 – 1929	128′ concrete hulled Army transport Became the flagship of the CG DD Force
USCGC	Colfax (ex General Rufus Ingalls)	1924 – 1928	128′ concrete hulled Army transport
USCGC	Pickering (ex BrigGen O.A. Allison)	1924 – 1928	128′ concrete hulled Army transport
USCGC	Wayanda (ex Col William H. Baldwin)	1924 – 1928	128′ concrete hulled Army transport
USCGC	Moccasin (ex Liberator)	1924 – 1928	102′ wooden hulled freighter
USCGC	City Point	1924 – 1928	Wooden hulled barge

Coast Guard Destroyer
Acquired from the Navy to enforce prohibition
Returned to Navy when prohibition repealed
Prohibition was known as the Destroyer Decade in the CG
6 Classes used:
Cassin
Paulding Model: Yes
O’Brien
Tucker
Sampson
Clemson Model: Yes

Designation	Name	Class	Class	Hull	Service	Comments	Pictures

USCGC	Cassin	Cassin – 1000 Tonner	CGD	1	1924 – 1933		CGH NS

USCGC	Cummings	Cassin – 1000 Tonner	CGD	3	1925 – 1932		CGH NS
USCGC	Downes	Cassin – 1000 Tonner	CGD	4	1924 – 1930		CGH NS
USCGC	Ammen	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	8	1925 – 1931		CGH NS
USCGC	Beale	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	9	1924 – 1930		CGH
USCGC	Burrows	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	10	1925 – 1931		NS
USCGC	Fanning	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	11	1925 – 1930		CGH
USCGC	Henley	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	12	1924 – 1931		NS
USCGC	Jouett	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	13	1924 – 1931		CGH
USCGC	McCall	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	14	1925 – 1930		CGH
USCGC	Monaghan	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	15	1925 – 1931		CGH
USCGC	Patterson	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	16	1924 – 1930		CGH NS
USCGC	Paulding	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	17	1925 – 1930		CGH NS
USCGC	Roe	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	18	1925 – 1930		CGH
USCGC	Terry	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	19	1925 – 1930		CGH
USCGC	Trippe	Paulding – Flivver	CGD	20	1924 – 1931		CGH
USCGC	Ericsson	O’Brien – 1000 Tonner	CGD	5	1925 – 1932		CGH
USCGC	McDougal	O’Brien – 1000 Tonner	CGD	6	1925 – 1933		CGH
USCGC	Conyngham	Tucker – 1000 Tonner	CGD	2	1925 – 1933		CGH
USCGC	Porter	Tucker – 1000 Tonner	CGD	7	1925 – 1933		CGH
USCGC	Tucker	Tucker – 1000 Tonner	CGD	23	1926 – 1933		CGH
USCGC	Wainwright	Tucker – 1000 Tonner	CGD	24	1926 – 1934		CGH
USCGC	Davis	Sampson – 1000 Tonner	CGD	21	1926 – 1933		CGH
USCGC	Shaw	Sampson – 1000 Tonner	CGD	22	1926 – 1933		CGH
USCGC	Wilkes	Sampson – 1000 Tonner	CGD	25	1926 – 1934		CGH
UCGC	Abel P. Upsher	Clemson Flush decker/4 Stacker	CGD	15	1920 – 1931		CGH
USCGC	George E. Badger	Clemson flush decker/4 Stacker	CGD	16	1931 – 1934		CGH
USCGC	Herndon	Clemson Flush decker/4 Stacker	CGD	17	1931 – 1934		CGH
USCGC	Hunt	Clemson Flush decker/4 Stacker	CGD	18	1931 – 1934		CGH
USCGC	Welborn C. Wood	Clemson Flush decker/4 Stacker	CGD	19	1931 – 1934		CGH
USCGC	Semmes	Clemson Flush decker/4 Stacker	CGD	20	1932 – 1934		CGH

Seized Rum Runner
The Coast Guard pressed seized “blacks” into service
They often were the only assets fast enough to catch other blacks”
Model: Yes

Designation	Name	Service	Comments	Pictures

USCGC	Lincoln	1926 – 1926	Seized rumrunner Burned and sank while in CG service
USCGC	Virginia II 58′ (aka CG 801)	1926 – 1931	Seized rumrunner
USCGC	Reclaimer (later Dobbin)	1927 – 1931	Seized rumrunner
USCGC	Gaviota 48′	1927 – 1927	Seized rum runner
USCGC	Eleanor 53′	1927 – 1934	Seized rumrunner
USCGC	Moto Morovich 42 (aka AB 25)	1928 – 1929	Seized Rumrunner
USCGC	Caloba 49′ (aka CG 807)	1929 – 1932	Seized rumrunner
USCGC	Jackie 53′ (aka CG 902)	1929 – 1931	Seized rumrunner
USCGC	Black Duck 45′ (aka CG 808)	CG	Seized rumrunner One of the fastest and most notorious
USCGC	Vinces 93′ (aka CG 821)	1931 – Unk	Seized rumrunner
USCGC	Chase 137′	1934 – 1939	Seized rumrunner

125′ Active Class “Buck and a Quarters” Cruising Cutter Second Class
Part of a massive expansion by ADM Frederick Billard
Commissioned as Second Class Cruising Cutters without hull numbers
Hull numbers were assigned in 1939, reclassified as Subchasers
Numbers were assigned alphabetically, not by date of commission
Active was the lead ship and was assigned the lowest hull number
The 125s were officially referred to as the Active Class
Reclassified as Coastal Patrol Boats after the war
Reclassified as Medium Endurance Cutters in 1967
Morris was the last operational 125 – decommissioned in 1970
Cuyahoga was an OCS training cutter until 1978
Model: Yes

Designation	Name	Class	Hull	Service	Comments	Pictures

USCGC	Active	WSC	125	1927 – 1963
USCGC	Agassiz	WSC	126	1927 – 1969		CGH
USCGC	Alert	WSC	127	1927 – 1969		CGH
USCGC	Bedloe	WSC	128	1927 – 1944	Lost in storm	CGP
USCGC	Bonham	WSC	129	1926 – 1959
USCGC	Boutwell	WSC	130	1927 – 1964
USCGC	Cahoone	WSC	131	1927 – 1968		CGH
USCGC	Cartigan	WSC	132	1927 – 1968		CGH
USCGC	Colfax	WSC	133	1927 – 1954
USCGC	Crawford	WSC	134	1927 – 1947
USCGC	Diligence	WSC	135	1927 – 1961
USCGC	Dix	WSC	136	1927 – 1948
USCGC	Ewing	WSC	137	1927 – 1969
USCGC	Faunce	WSC	138	1927 – 1948
USCGC	Frederick Lee	WSC	139	1927 – 1964
USCGC	General Greene	WSC	140	1927 – 1968	Sold off – later seized by CG smuggling drugs	CGH CGP
USCGC	Harriet Lane	WSC	141	1927 – 1946
USCGC	Jackson	WSC	142	1927 – 1944	Lost in a storm	CGP
USCGC	Kimball	WSC	143	1927 – 1968
USCGC	Legare	WSC	144	1927 – 1968
USCGC	Marion	WSC	145	1927 – 1962
USCGC	McLane	WSC	146	1927 – 1968	Sank RO-32 on 9 July 1942
USCGC	Morris	WSC	147	1927 – 1970	To Sea Scout Program
USCGC	Nemaha	WSC	148	1927 – 1948
USCGC	Pulaski	WSC	149	1927 – 1948
USCGC	Reliance	WSC	150	1927 – 1947
USCGC	Rush	WSC	151	1927 – 1947
USCGC	Tiger	WSC	152	1927 – 1947		CGH
USCGC	Travis	WSC	153	1927 – 1962
USCGC	Vigilant	WSC	154	1927 – 1956
USCGC	Woodbury	WSC	155	1927 – 1946
USCGC	Yeaton	WSC	156	1927 – 1969
USCGC	Cuyahoga	WSC WIX	157	1927 – 1978	Typical operations until 1957 1957 to 1959: OCS training cutter in New London 1959: Transferred to Yorktown as OCS training cutter 20 October 1978: Lost in collision with MV Santa Cruz II	CGH
USCGC	Electra			1934 – 1936	1936 – Decommissioned 1936 – 1945 USS Potomac (AG-25) – President Roosevelt’s yacht 1945 – Decommissioned as CGC Electra 1946 – Maryland Tidewater Fisheries Commission 1960 – Privately owned 1980 – Seized as a drug runner Currently owned by the Potomac Association in Oakland