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Training Cutters

Revenue Cutter Service Training Cutters

Designation Name Class Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
               
USRC Dobbin Cushing 91     1876 - 1881 Stationed in Savannah at the start of the Civil War
The only Revenue Cutter to escape to the North
23 years as a patrol cutter
1876: became the first Academy training cutter in New Bedford
1878: Replaced at the Academy by Chase and returned to patrol duty
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USRC Chase
(aka Salmon P. Chase)
Misc RC 115/145     1878 - 1907 Designed specifically as an Academy training cutter to replace Dobbin
Used as a patrol cutter from 1890 to 1894 when US Naval Academy provided USRC officers
The 1895 expansion of the navy brought that agreement to an end
Sudden need fo RC officers
Chase cut in half and lengthened by 40' to accomodate more cadets
1907: Decommissioned and turned over to Marine-Hospital Service as a quarantine ship
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USRC/USCGC Oriole (ex USS Dale) USS Dale Class     1906 - 1921 Commissioned into the Navy in 1869 as the sloop of war Dale
Transferred to the RCS in 1906 as a barracks ship for the Academy
 
USRC/USCGC Itasca (Ex USS Bancroft) 187 USS Bancroft Class     1907 - 1922 Commissioned in the Navy in 1893 as a training ship
Transferred to RCS as Itasca to replace the aging Chase
Third Academy training cutter
Academy and cutter moved to New London in 1910
USRC became USCG in 1915
By 1922 to cramped to be effective
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1922 - 1944 Training Cutter

Designation Name Class Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
               
USCGC Alexander Hamilton
(Ex USS Vicksburg)
(later Beta)
168 USS Annapolis Class PG     1921 - 1944 Commissioned into the Navy in 1895 as the gunboat Vicksburg
Transferred to the RCS in 1921 to replace Itasca
Fourth Academy training cutter until 1931
1931 to 1939: receiving cutter at the Curtis Bay Yard
1939 to 1942: Barracks ship at the Academy
1942: Back to the Yard as a floating machine shop
decommissioned in 1944
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WWII Training Cutters

Designation Name Class Classification Hull Num Service Comments Picture
               
USCGC Curlew Schooner 65 CG 65016 1940 - 1960 Donated to the Coast Guard on 31 Jan 1940
Used as an Academy training ship
1951: transferred to TRACEN Cape May
Used in boot camp training
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USCGC Atlantic Three-masted
schooner 185
WIX 271 1941 - 1947 Launched in 1903 as a 3 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 mon-hull vessel until 2002
WWI - Submarine mother ship
Served as Academy training ship in WWII
Scrapped in 1982
Full size replica built in 2010
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USCGC Volador Schooner 110 WIX 59 1942 - 1943 Used for district personel training
To The Army
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USCGC Danmark 295 Barque WIX 283 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
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USCGC Bonneville (Former Cook) 110 SC-1 WIX 375 1943 - 1945 Second time in CG service
Used as Academy training cutter
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USCGC Marita
(ex HMS Kaspar)
ex HMS Kilmacrennan)
HMS Kil Class 183 WYP 175 1943 - 1945    
USCGC Cobb
(former Gov. Cobb)
Misc CGC 286 WPG 181 1943 - 1946 First turbin-propelled commercial ship in US (1906)
Served the navy as a training sship in WWI
Acquired by the CG in 1943 and used for training
Converted to a helicopter carrier and was instrumental
in proving the concept of helo ops from a ship
Considered the first helo carrier
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USCGC Nellwood Patrol Yacht     1943 - 1947 Training ship  

Post WWII Training Cutter

Designation Name Class Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
               
USCGC Cuyahoga 125 Buck-and-a-Quarters WPC/WMEC 157 1927 - 1978 Typical operations until 1957
1957 to 1959 - Training cutter in New London
1959 - Transferred to Yorktown as OCS training cutter
20 October 1978: Lost in a collision with Santa Cruz II
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USCGC Curlew Schooner 65 CG 65016 1940 - 1960 Donated to the Coast Guard on 31 Jan 1940
Used as an Academy training ship
1951: transferred to TRACEN Cape May
Used in boot camp training
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USCGC Eagle (ex SNS Horst Wessel) 295 Barque WIX 327 1946 - Active Built in 1936 and named Horst Wessel
a stormtrooper who wrote the Nazi party anthem
and died fighting German Communists in 1930
Traing ship in the German Navy
Siezed as a war prize in 1946
Commissioned into the Coast Guard as the Academy training cutter
Only sailing vessel in commissioned US service
America's Tall Ship
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USCGC Lamar 184 USS PCE WTR 899 1964 - 1969 Commissioned in the Navy as 1945
Training ship from 1950 to 1964
Turned over to the Coast Guard in 1964
Used for Reserve training in Monterey
 
USCGC Tanager (ex USS Tanager) 221 Auk Class Minesweeper AM/MSF/WTR 385/385/885 1964 - 1972 Commissioned into the Navy in 1945
Performed mine sweeping operations until 1963
Transferred to the Coast Guard in 1963
Used for Reserve training at Yorktown
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USCGC Eagle

Designation Name Class Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
               
USCGC Eagle (ex SNS Horst Wessel) 295 Barque WIX 327 1946 - Active Built in 1936 and named Horst Wessel
a stormtrooper who wrote the Nazi party anthem
and died fighting German Communists in 1930
Traing ship in the German Navy
Siezed as a war prize in 1946
Commissioned into the Coast Guard as the Academy training cutter
Only sailing vessel in commissioned US service
America's Tall Ship
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