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White Hulls

To the UK Under Lend Lease

250′ Lake Class Patrol Gunboat Part of a massive expansion by ADM Frederick Billard Commissioned as First Class Cruising Cutters without hull numbers Hull numbers were assigned in 1939, reclassified as Patrol Gunboats The 250s were officially referred to as the Lake or the Chelan Class Sent to the UK under Lend-Lease Only a few …

North Atlantic and Med Runs

When war broke out the Coast Guard grew rapidly, both in responsibilities and in personnel to carry them out 11 new classes of Cutters were commissioned – mostly black hulls and mostly inland tenders The Coast Guard manned hundreds of ships and landing craft for the Navy and Army The Coast Guard acquired a number …

Coastal Convoys

These cutters fought the u-boat war just off the US East Coast guarding convoys headed to New York, the jumping off port for the Atlantic Convoys They include the civilian boats of the Hooligan Navy 205′ Algonquin Class Steam Brigantine WPG Commissioned as Revenue Cutters without hull numbers Last RC class rigged with sails Though …

Ocean Weather Stations

These were commercial vessels acquired for OWS duty 6 were 1920s steamers, 1 was a WYPc trawler. Muskegat was a 1920s steamer lost to a German torpedo Model: Yes Designation Name Class Class Hull Service Comments Picture USS/USCGC Muskegat (ex Cornish) 1923 Freighter 233 AG/WAG 48 1941 – 1942 Missing and presumed sunk by U-Boat Only …

Greenland Patrol

These Cutters fought the war from early December 1941 They guarded Allied interest in the Danish colony of Greenland after Denmark was occupied by Germany and Germany eyed expansion into North America 240′ Tampa Class Patrol Gunboat First cutters designed by the Coast Guard Ordered shortly after WWI First true “Multi-mission” cutters Equipped for law …

Non-Combatants

Misc Patrol Gunboat Model: No Designation Name Class Hull Service Comments Pictures USCGC Cobb 300′ (ex Governor Cobb) WPG 181 1943 – 1946 1906 – First turbine propelled commercial ship in US Training ship in EASRSEAFRON in WWI Originally used as a steam plant training ship 1944 – Converted to a helicopter carrier with the …

Too Late for Combat

255′ Lake Class Patrol Gunboat Replaced the 250 Lake Class given to the UK Commissioned as Patrol Gunboats The first white hulls commissioned with hull numbers The 255s are officially referred to as the Lake or Owasco Class Most served in Vietnam Reclassified as High Endurance Cutters in 1967 All were decommissioned in 1973/1974 Model: …