| Designation | Name/Hull Num | Class/Rig | Service | Comments | Pix | Model |
| USRC | Henrietta | Schooner | 1861 – 1862 | James Gordon Bennet’s personal yacht He commanded her while in USRCS service Later belonged to New York Yacht Club Won Great Ocean Transatlantic Race in 1866 |
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| USRC | Naugatuck (aka EA Stevens, Ironside) |
Steamship | 1861 – 1870 | Built in 1844 by H. R. Durham Acquired by Edwin Stevens Stevens intended to develop a semi-submersible ironclad It would present a difficult target in the submerged state Converted Naugatuck into a prototype “Stevens Battery” Turned over to the RCS for trials Used by the Navy in the Civil War to some success But not enough to fund further development Served the RCS until 1870 Ultimate fate unknown |
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| USRC/USCGC | Apache (former Galveston aka Frank Galveston) |
Twin Screw Tug | 1900 – 1937 | Commissioned in 1891 as Galveston Renamed Apache in 1900 Decommissioned in 1937 and transferred to the Army Used as radio transmission ship General Douglas MacArthur’s “I have returned” speech was broadcasted from her deck |
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| USCGC | Electra WPC 187 |
165B Thetis | 1934 – 1936 | 1936 – Decommissioned 1936 – 1945 USS Potomac (AG-25) – President Roosevelt’s yacht 1945 – Recommissioned 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 |
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| USCGC | Joseph Conrad WIX |
1939 – 1942 | Built in 1882 as the Danish training vessel Georg Stage Acquired by Coast Guard in 1939 Used in merchant marine training Sailed in the 1941 Havava Yacht Race Decommissioned in 1942 Donated to Mystic Seaport as a museum ship |
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| USS/USCGC | Nourmahal WPG 72 |
1940 – 1946 | William Vincent Astor’s personal yacht Voluntaruily turned over to the Coast Guard in 1940 Transferred to the Navy in 1943 with Coast Guard crew Transferred back to Coast Guard in 1944 Served as OWS vessel, Flagship of EASTSEAFRON and as a harbor tow vessel at Coast Guard Yard Returned to Astor in 1946 |
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| USCGC | Delta Queen WIX |
1941 – 1943 | Yes, THAT Delta Queen Began life as a in 1926 as excursion boat on the Sacramento River Used by CG for merchant marine training from 1941 to 1943 Used by the Navy in WWII Moved to the Mississippi River in 1946 Listed on National Registry of Historic Places in 1970 Declared National Historic Landmark in 1989 Ceased operations in 2008 Currently a a hotel/restaurant in Chattanooga |
Wiki | ||
| USCGC | Atlantic WIX 271 |
185 Gaff Rigged Racing Schooner |
1941 – 1947 | Launched in 1903 as a three masted gaff rigged racing schooner 1905 Won Kaiser’s Cup with an Atlantic crossing of 12 days, 4 hrs, 1 min, 19 sec Record stood for 75 years before being broken by a trimaran Record stood for a mono-hull until 2002 WWI – Submarine mother ship Served as an Academy training cutter in WWII Scrapped in 1982 Full sized replica built in 2010 |
Link | Yes |
| USCGC | Danmark WIX 283 |
295 Barque | 1942 – 1945 | Danish Navy cadet training ship commanded by Captain Knud Hansen Sailing in US waters when Germany invaded Denmark Hansen sailed into Jacksonville and sought asylum When US entered the war, Hansen volunteered his ship and crew as a training ship For the duration of the war Danmark was the UCSGA training cutter Returned to Denmark after the war |
Wiki | Yes |
| USCGC | Vema (ex Hussar) WIX |
182 Yacht | 1941 – 1942 | Built in 1923 as E. F. Hutten’s yacht Hussar Norwegian shipping magnate Unger Vetlesen renamed her Vema Donated to the American war effort by Vetlesen’s wife Originally used in coastal patrol then in merchant marine training Became a Lamont-Doherty oceanographic research vessel Vema Seamount and Vema Channel are named for her 1982 – operated by Windjammer Barefoot Cruises as Mandalay Laid up in 2008 when Windjammer went out of business |
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| USCGC | Gertrude L. Thebaud WYPc 386 |
Gloucester Fishing Schooner | 1942 – 1945 | Financed by Louis Thebaud and named for his wife Built in Gloucester, MA in 1930 Last if the Glouster-built Grand Banks fishing schooners Designed and built specifically to capture the International Fisherman’s Trophy from the Nova Scotian fleet 1931: Lost two straight races to the Canadian schooner Bluenose 1933: Carried a delegation to Washington on behalf of the fishing industry – FDR toured the ship at that time 1933: Part of the Chicago World’s Fair 1937: Part of the Donald McMillan Arctic Expedition to Frobisher Bay 1938: Lost 3 out of 5 races to Bluenose Last year the competition was held – Blunose retired undefeated Served the Coast Guard in WWII – EASTSEAFRON 20 May 1945: Left Gloucester for the Caribbean trade February 1948: Driven onto a breakwater in Venezuela and broke up |
Link | Yes |
| USCGC | Sea Cloud WPG/WIX 284 |
316 OWS Yacht | 1942 – 1944 | Built in 1931 as E. F. Hutton’s 4 masted luxury yacht Hussar II Bought by Joseph Davis, US Ambassador to Russia Acquired by the Navy in 1942 for OWS duty CO, LT Carlton Skinner, received permission to train minorities in rates other tha steward Eventually 50 black enlisted and 2 officers served aboard Sea Cloud Skinner reported no loss in proficiency in this first experiment in integration at sea Returned to owner after the war |
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| USCGC | Mayflower (ex USS Butte) WPG 183 |
1943 – 1946 | Built in 1896 as a luxury yacht for Ogden Goelet and named for him Acquired by the Navy in 1898 as USS Mayflower Served in the Spanish America War Served as Commodore Dewey’s Flagship in the Asiatic Fleet Served as Presidential yacht from 1906 to 1929 Treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War was negotiated on board Decommissioned by Hoover as an economic savings Series of commercial owners through the Great Depression Acquired by the Navy in 1942 as USS Butte Recommissioned CGC Mayflower in 1943 EASTSEAFRON Involved in smuggling Jews into Israel in 1948 Ultimate fate unknown |
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| USCGC | East Breeze (ex SNS Externstein) WIX |
1944 – 1944 | German supply ship in Greenland Captured by CGC Eastwind on 15 October 1944 The only German surface ship captured in WWII Taken into Service as USCGC East Breeze Turned over to the Navy on 24 January 1945 as USS Callao |
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