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1915 - 1940: White Ones

WWI

205' Algonquin Class Steam Brigantine

Cruising Cutter (1915-1925)
Cruising Cutter First Class (1925-1939)

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USRC/USCGC Gresham 1897 - 1944 Gresham had been sold for scrap in 1935
Reacquired in 1943 due to wartime needs
Assigned to EASTSEAFRON
Decommsissioned permanently on 7 April 1944
CGH
NS
USRC/USCGC Onondaga 1898 - 1923   CGH
USRC/USCGC Algonquin 1898 - 1930   CGH
USRC/USCGC Manning 1898 - 1930   CGH
USRC/USCGC Mohawk 1904 - 1917 Sunk in collision with SS Vennacher CGH

190' Miami Class

Cruising Cutter (1915-1925)
Cruising Cutter First Class (1925-1939)

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USRC/USCGC Miami
later Tampa)
1912 - 1916   CGH
NS
USRC/USCGC Tampa
former Miami)
1916 - 1918 Sunk by German u-boat in WWI
Cited by RADM Niblack, Commander US Naval Forces Gibralter,
for outstanding service
CO, CAPT Charles Satterlee, had 2 Navy destroyers named for him
Commemorated in Semper Paratus
CGH
NS
USRC/USCGC Unalga 1912 - 1945 Unalga survived WWI and had a long Coast Guard career
Assigned to the Caribbean Theater in WWII
Fought through WWII doing ASW patrols
Finally decommissioned in 1945
CGH
NS

Prohibition

75' "Six Bitters" Patrol Boat

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

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

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

Designation Name Class Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
               
USCGC Cassin DD - Cassin - 1000 Tonner CG 1 1924 - 1933   CGH
NS
USCGC Cummings DD - Cassin - 1000 Tonner CG 3 1925 - 1932   CGH
NS
USCGC Downes DD - Cassin - 1000 Tonner CG 4 1924 - 1930   CGH
NS
USCGC Ammen DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 8 1925 - 1931   CGH
NS
USCGC Beale DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 9 1924 - 1930   CGH
USCGC Burrows DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 10 1925 - 1931   NS
USCGC Fanning DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 11 1925 - 1930   CGH
USCGC Henley DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 12 1924 - 1931   NS
USCGC Jouett DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 13 1924 - 1931   CGH
USCGC McCall DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 14 1925 - 1930   CGH
USCGC Monaghan DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 15 1925 - 1931   CGH
USCGC Patterson DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 16 1924 - 1930   CGH
NS
USCGC Paulding DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 17 1925 - 1930   CGH
NS
USCGC Roe DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 18 1925 - 1930   CGH
USCGC Terry DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 19 1925 - 1930   CGH
USCGC Trippe DD - Paulding - Flivver CG 20 1924 - 1931   CGH
USCGC Ericsson DD - O'Brien - 1000 Tonner CG 5 1925 - 1932   CGH
USCGC McDougal DD - O'Brien - 1000 Tonner CG 6 1925 - 1933   CGH
USCGC Conyngham DD - Tucker - 1000 Tonner CG 2 1925 - 1933   CGH
USCGC Porter DD - Tucker - 1000 Tonner CG 7 1925 - 1933   CGH
USCGC Tucker DD - Tucker - 1000 Tonner CG 23 1926 - 1933   CGH
USCGC Wainwright DD - Tucker - 1000 Tonner CG 24 1926 - 1934   CGH
USCGC Davis DD - Sampson - 1000 Tonner CG 21 1926 - 1933   CGH
USCGC Shaw DD - Sampson - 1000 Tonner CG 22 1926 - 1933   CGH
USCGC Wilkes DD - Sampson - 1000 Tonner CG 25 1926 - 1934   CGH
USCGC Abel P. Upsher DD - Clemson
Flush decker/4 Stacker
CG 15 1920 - 1931   CGH
USCGC George E. Badger DD - Clemson
Flush decker/4 Stacker
CG 16 1931 - 1934   CGH
USCGC Herndon DD - Clemson
Flush decker/4 Stacker
CG 17 1931 - 1934   CGH
USCGC Hunt DD - Clemson
Flush decker/4 Stacker
CG 18 1931 - 1934   CGH
USCGC Welborn C. Wood DD - Clemson
Flush decker/4 Stacker
CG 19 1931 - 1934   CGH
USCGC Semmes DD - Clemson
Flush decker/4 Stacker
CG 20 1932 - 1934   CGH

Siezed Rum Runner

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

125' Active Class "Buck and a Quarters" Cruising Cutter Second Class

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USCGC Active 1927 - 1963    
USCGC Agassiz 1927 - 1969   CGH
USCGC Alert 1927 - 1969   CGH
USCGC Bedloe 1927 - 1944 Lost in storm CGP
USCGC Bonham 1926 - 1959    
USCGC Boutwell 1927 - 1964    
USCGC Cahoone 1927 - 1968   CGH
USCGC Cartigan 1927 - 1968   CGH
USCGC Colfax 1927 - 1954    
USCGC Crawford 1927 - 1947    
USCGC Diligence 1927 - 1961    
USCGC Dix 1927 - 1948    
USCGC Ewing 1927 - 1969    
USCGC Faunce 1927 - 1948    
USCGC Frederck Lee 1927 - 1964    
USCGC General Greene 1927 - 1968 Sold off - later seized by CG smuggling drugs CGH
CGP
USCGC Harriet Lane 1927 - 1946    
USCGC Jackson 1927 - 1944 Lost in a storm CGP
USCGC Kimball 1927 - 1968    
USCGC Legare 1927 - 1968    
USCGC Marion 1927 - 1962    
USCGC McLane 1927 - 1968 Sank RO-32 on 9 July 1942  
USCGC Morris 1927 - 1970 To Sea Scout Program  
USCGC Nemaha 1927 - 1948    
USCGC Pulaski 1927 - 1948    
USCGC Reliance 1927 - 1947    
USCGC Rush 1927 - 1947    
USCGC Tiger 1927 - 1947   CGH
USCGC Travis 1927 - 1962    
USCGC Vigilant 1927 - 1956    
USCGC Woodbury 1927 - 1946    
USCGC Yeaton 1927 - 1969    
USCGC Cuyahoga 1927 - 1978 Typical operations until 1957
1957 to 1959: OCS training cutter in New london
1959: Trasnferred 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 - Recommissioned as CGC Electra
1946 - Maryland Tidewater Fisheries Commission
1960 - Privately owned
1980 - Siezed as a drug runner
Currently owned by the Potomac Association in Oakland
 

Ocean Weather Stations

327' Secretary/Treasury Class Cruising Cutter First Class

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USCGC Bibb
(former George M. Bibb)
1937 - 1985 Built in Philadelphia and stationed in Norfolk
1939: Nuetrallity/Greenland/OWS Patrols
Convoy duty and amphibious command ship in WWII
Typical post-war dutues - OWS
14 October 1947: Ocean Station Charlie off Greenland
Bermuda Sky Queen, a Boeing 314 Flying Boat, was forced to ditch late at night
30 foot waves prevented a rescue attempt until the next morning
All 62 passengers safely evacuated on 15 October
Unable to safely tow the aircraft, Bibb sank it with gunfire
Deployed to Vietnam
Sunk as a reef off Florida
CGH
USCGC Campbell
(former George W. Campbell)
1936 - 1982 Built in Philadelphia and stationed in Stapleton, New York
2 October 1939: performed the first Nuetrality Patrol
1941: used as a test bed to see if 327s could serve as convoy escorts
Convoy duty and amphibiou command ship in WWII
22 February 1943: Rammed and sank U-606
Typical post-war duties - OWS
Deployed to Vietnam
Crowned as first official Queen of the Fleet in mid 1970s
Sunk as a reef off Hawaii
CGH
USCGC Duane
(former William J. Duane)
1936 - 1985 Built in Philadelphia and stationed in Oakland
1939: Neutrality/Greenland/OWS Patrols
Convoy duty and amphibious command ship in WWII
17 April 1943: assisted CGC Spencer in sinking U-175
Typical post-war duties - OWS
Deployed to Vietnam
Queen of the Fleet from 1982 to 1985
Sunk as an artificial reef off Key Largo, Florida
CGH
USCGC Alexander Hamilton 1936 - 1942 Built in Philadelphia and stationed in Oakland
Bering Sea Patrol
1939: Neutrality/Greenland/OWS Patrols
Convoy duty in WWII
29 January 1942: sunk by U-132
25 crewmen killed
CGH
USCGC Ingham
(former Samuel D. Ingham)
1936 - 1988 Built in Philadelphia and stationed in Pory Angeles, Washington
1939: Neutrality/Greenland/OWS patrols
Convoy duty and amphibious command ship in WWII
17 December 1942: sank U-626
Typical post-war duties - OWS
Deployed to Vietnam
Queen of the Fleet from 1985 to 1988
Retired as the most decorated cutter in the Coast Guard Fleet
Only cutter to be awarded two Presidential Unit Citations
Currently centerpiece of the Ingham Memorial Museum in Key West, Florida
CGH
USCGC Spencer
(former John C. Spencer)
1937 - 1980 Built in Philadelphia and stationed in Cordova, Alaska
1939: Neutrality/Greenland/OWS Patrols
Convoy duty and amphibious command ship in WWII
21 February 1943: Sank either U-225 or (more likely) U-529
Typical post-war duties - OWS
Deployed to Vietnam
First of the 327s to be decommissioned in 1974
Served as an Engineering Training School until scrapped in 1980
CGH
USCGC Taney
(former Roger B. Taney)
1936 - 1986 Built in Philadelphia and stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii
One of the first ships to return fire during the 7 December 1941 attack
Defended the Honolulu Power Plant
The only 327 not deployed in the North Atlantic convoy run
Patrolled in the Pacific until 1943
1943: The only 327 to mount 4 5"/38 guns
Joined the Mediteranean convoy run
Typical post-war duties - OWS
Deplyed to both Korea and Vietnam
1977: Last Coast Guard Cutter on OWS when Station Hotel was discontinued
Decommissioned on 7 December 1986
Museum ship in Baltimore
CGH

Other White Ones

138' Pawtuxet Class Topsail Schooner Cruising Cutter

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USRC/USCGC Levi Woodbury
(former Mahoning)
1873 - 1915 Longest serving Revenue Cutter Wik

165' Tallapoosa Class

Cruising Cutter (1915-1925)
Cruising Cutter First Class (1925-1939)

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USCGC Tallapoosa 1915 - 1945 Classified a WPG in WWII
Her sister was classified a WPR
CGH
NS
USCGC Ossipee 1915 - 1945 Classified a WPR in WWII
Her sister was classified a WPG
CGH
NS

182' Kankakee Class Paddlewheeler River Patrol Cutter

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USCGC Kankakee 1919 - 1925    
USCGC Yocona 1919 - 1925    

200' Coast Guard Eagle Class Patrol Boat

Designation Name Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC McGourty (ex USS Eagle-16) CG 16 1919 - 1922   NS
USCGC Scally (ex Eagle-20) CG 20 1920 - 1920    
USCGC Bothwell (ex USS Eagle-21) CG 21 1919 - 1921    
USCGC Earp (ex USS Eagle-22) CG 22 1920 - 1923    
USCGC Carr (ex USS Eagle-30) CG 30 1919 - 1922    

110' Coast Guard SC-1 Class Subchaser

Designation Name Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Quigley (ex USS SC-22) CG 22 1919 - 1922   Wiki
USCGC Richards (ex USS SC-27) CG 27 1919 - 1923   Wiki
USCGC Hansen (ex USS SC-68) CG 68 1920 - 1927    
USCGC Newbury (ex SC-70) CG 70 1919 - 1923    
USCGC Vaughn (ex USS SC-152) CG 152 1920 - 1928   NS
USCGC Taylor (ex USS SC-153) CG 153 1920 - 1921   NS
USCGC Smith (ex USS SC-155) CG 155 1919 - 1937    
USCGC Tingard (ex USS SC-183) CG 183 1919 - 1937   NS
USCGC Mehelotos (ex USS SC-197) CG 197 1919 - 1923    
USCGC Ovesen (ex USS SC-199) CG 199 1919 - 1923    
USCGC Larsen (ex USS SC-203) CG 203 1919 - 1923    
USCGC Adams (ex USS SC-268) CG 268 1920 - 1922    
USCGC Deering (ex USS SC-333) CG 333 1920 - 1922    
USCGC Talley (ex USS SC-334) CG 417 1920 - 1922    
USCGC Cygan (ex USS SC-335) CG 335 1919 - 1936   NS
USCGC Hahn (ex USS SC-415) CG 415 1921 - 1923   NS
USCGC Stellenwerf (ex USS SC-417) CG 417 1919 - 1922    
USCGC Knudson (ex USS SC-431) CG 431 1919 - 1921   NS
USCGC Klingelhoefer (ex USS SC-433) CG 433 1919 - 1921   NS
USCGC Johannson (ex USS SC-435) CG 435 1919 - 1922    
USCGC Cook (ex USS SC-438) (later Bonneville) CG 438 1916 - 1935 Cook would rejoin the Coast Guard
in WWII as an Academy training cutter
Renamed Bonneville
NS

240' Tampa Class

Cruising Cutter (1921-1925)
Cruising Cutter First Class (1925-1939)

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USCGC Haida 1921 - 1947 Kown as Haida Maru for her time spent in the Pacific CGH
USCGC Modoc 1922 - 1947 To Ecuador CGH
USCGC Mojave 1951 - 1947    
USCGC Tampa 1921 - 1947   CGH

250' Lake Class Cruising Cutter First Class

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USCGC Mocoma (former Cayuga)
(ex HMS Totland)
1946 - 1950   CGH
USCGC Saranac (later HMS Banff (41 - 46))
(later Sebek) (later Tampa)
1930 - 1941   CGH
USCGC Sebek (former Saranac)
(ex HMS Banff) (later Tampa)
1946 - 1947   CGH
USCGC Tampa (former Saranac)
(ex HMS Banff) (former Sebek)
1947 - 1954   CGH
USCGC Champlain (later HMS Sennen 41 - 46) 1928 - 1948   CGH
USCGC Itasca (later HMS Gorleston 41 - 46) 1929 - 1950   CGH
USCGC Cayuga (later HMS Totland 41 - 46)
(later Mocoma)
1932 - 1941   CGH
USCGC Chelan (later HMS Lulworth 41 - 46) 1928 - 1946 Never Recommissioned after return from UK  
USCGC Mendota (later HMS Culver 41 - 46) 1928 - 1942 Sunk while in UK service CGH
USCGC Ponchartrain (later HMS Hartland 41 - 46) 1928 - 1942 Sunk while in UK service CGH
USCGC Sebago (later HMS Walney 41 - 46) 1930 - 1941 Sunk while in UK service CGH
USCGC Shoshone (later Landguard 41 - 46) 1930 - 1941 Damaged while in UK service - never returned CGH
USCGC Tahoe (later HMS Fishguard 41 - 46) 1928 - 1946 Never Recommissioned after return from UK CGH

165'B Thetis Class Cruising Cutter Second Class

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USCGC Argo 1933 - 1948   CGH
USCGC Ariadne 1934 - 1969   Wiki
USCGC Atalanta 1934 - 1950    
USCGC Aurora 1931 - 1968   CGH
USCGC Calypso 1942 - 1947   Link
USCGC Cyane 1934 - 1950   CGH
USCGC Daphne 1934 - 1946    
USCGC Dione 1934 - 1963   CGH
USCGC Galatea 1933 - 1948    
USCGC Hermes 1932 - 1948    
USCGC Icarus 1932 - 1946 Sank U-352 - To Dominican Republic CGH
USCGC Nemesis 1934 - 1964   Wiki
USCGC Nike 1934 - 1964    
USCGC Pandora 1934 - 1959    
USCGC Perseus 1932 - 1959    
USCGC Thetis 1931 - 1947 Sank U-157  
USCGC Triton 1934 - 1967    
USCGC Electra 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 - Siezed as a drug runner
Currently owned by the Potomac Association in Oakland
NS

165'A Algonquin Class Cruising Cutter First Class

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USCGC Algonquin 1934 - 1948   CGH
USCGC Comanche 1934 - 1947   CGH
USCGC Escanaba 1932 - 1943 Commissioned 17 September 1932 - stationed in Grand Haven, MI
Operated entirely in the Great Lakes
Esablished close ties with Grand Haven - Coast Guard City, USA
The city always celebrated the 4 August birthday of the Coast Guard
Transferred to the Greenland Patrol in 1942
It was noted that survivors were too cold to hold rescue lines
LT Robert Prouse, Escanaba XO, developed a rubber suit that
rescuers could wear into the water to pick up survivors
Suits were used to rescue 133 men from the torpedoed Dorchester
Widely used by other ships throughout the war
13 June 1942 - Escanaba exploded and sank
Final cause was never established
All but 2 of her 103 man crew were lost
4 August 1943 over 20,000 people in Grand Haven attended
memorial services for Escanaba
Grand Haven is still Coast Guard City, USA
and still marks Coast Guard Day with a grand celebration
CGH
USCGC Mohawk 1935 - 1948 To Delaware Bay and River Pilots Assoc
to Miami Dade Historical Museum
CGH
USCGC Onondaga 1934 - 1947    
USCGC Tahoma 1934 - 1953   CGH

Launches and Anchorage and Boarding (AB) Vessels

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USRC/USCGC Penrose 67' 1883 - 1924 Former Revenue Cutter  
USRC/USCGC Guthrie 87' 1895 - 1941 Former Revenue Cutter
Served in WWII
 
USRC/USCGC Tybee 67
(aka AB 15)
1895 - 1930 Former Revenue Cutter  
USRC/USCGC Scout 65' 1896 - 1915 Former Revenue Cutter  
USRC/USCGC Delmarva
(aka AB 22)
1900 - 1934 Former Revenue Cutter  
USRC/USCGC Arcata 85' 1903 - 1936    
USRC/USCGC Patrol 36' 1905 - 1915 Former Revenue Cutter  
USRC/USCGC Carolina 56' 1906 - 1921 Former Revenue Cutter  
USRC/USCGC Alert 61' 1907 - 1920 Former Revue Cutter  
USRC/USCGC Guide 70' 1908 - 1926 Former Revenue Cutter
First Cutter with internal combustion engine
 
USRC/USCGC Moriches 32' 1908 - 1918 Former Revenue Cutter  
USRC/USCGC Vigilant
(aka AB 45)
1910 - 1940 Former Revenue Cutter  
USRC/USCGC Guard 67' 1913 - 1943 Former Revenue Cutter
Served in WWII
 
USRC/USCGC Scout 61'
(aka AB 11)
1914 - 1930 Former Revenue Cutter  
USCGC Magothy 1916 - 1920    
USCGC Advance 50'
(aka AB 1)
1917 - 1939    
USCGC Patrol 69'
(aka AB 28)
1917 - 1940    
USCGC Caswell 1918 - 1919    
USCGC Catherine 47
(aka AB 16)
(later Venture)
1918 - 1918    
USCGC Coquet 1918 - 1918    
USCGC Ross 104 1918 - 1919    
USCGC Venture 47'
(aka AB 16)
(former Catherine)
1918 - 1940    
USCGC Cossack 64'
aka AB 3)
1919 - 1925    
USCGC Arrow 62'
(aka AB 2)
1919 - 1923    
USCGC Dare 40'
(aka AB 4)
1919 - 1924    
USCGC Dart 44'
(aka AB 5)
1919 - 1922    
USCGC Dash 64'
(aka AB 5)
1919 - 1933    
USCGC Javelin 90'
(ex JESSAMINE (SP 438))
1919 - 1922   NS
USCGC Kangaroo 62'
(aka AB 6)
(ex USS SP-1284)
1919 - 1932   NS 
USCGC Leader 73'
(ex USS Admiral SP 541)
1919 - 1920 Destroyed in gasoline tank explosion NS
USCGC Lookout 41'
(aka AB 7)
1919 - 1933    
USCGC Pioneer 58'
(aka AB 9)
(ex USS Gurkha (SP 600))
1919 - 1934   NS
USCGC Swift 66
(ex USS Broadbill SP-823)
1919 - Unk   NS
USCGC Valiant 42'
(ex USS Virginia (SP 746))
1919 - 1922   Wiki
USCGC Vidette 75'
(ex USS Howarda SP-144)
1919 -1922   NS
USCGC Relief 47
(aka AB 10)
1921 - 1933    
USCGC M. B. Chadwick 64'
(aka AB 21)
1923 - 1923    
USCGC Voyager 52'
(aka AB 18)
(ex USS Voyager (SP-361))
1923 - 1936   NS
USCGC Lightning 110' 1932 - 1935    

Misc One-of-a-Kind Cutters

Designation Name Service Comments Pictures
         
USRC/USCGC Bear 198' 1885 - 1929
1941 - 1944
Built by Alexander Stephenin Dundee Scotland as a sealer in 1874
Taken into US Navy service in 1884 as part of the rescue fleet for the
ill-fated Greeley Arctic expedition
1885: Taken into the Revenue Cutter Service to patrol Alaskan waters
Most famous commanding office was Mike "Hell Roarin'" Healy
Served 41 years in the ice
Carried reindeer from Siberia to Alaska to feed natives
Overland rescue of over 250 sealers stuck in the ice
Decomissioned in 1929 and turned over to Oakland, CA
Used as a set in filming of Jack London's "Sea Wolf"
Acquired by Adm. Richard Byrd for his 1933 Antarctic Expedition
Returned from the Byrd expedition in 1941 to Boston
In WWII she was part of the Greenland Patrol
Took part in the capture of the Norwegian supply ship Buskoe
Decommissioned again in 1944
Sold to a Canadian sealing company - never operational
Purchased by Alfred Johnston of Villanova, PA in 1948
To be used as a resteraunt museum in Philadelphia
Sank while being towed to Philadelphia
One of the most famous Cutters Coast Guard history
The mascot of the CG Academy is a Bear in her honor
CGH
USRC/USCGC Morrill
(aka Lot M. Morrill) 145'
1889 - 1928   CGH
USRC/USCGC McCullouch 219' 1897 - 1917 Largest RC (219')
Steam Barkentine
Assigned to Commodore Dewey's Asiatic Fleet and fought at Manila Bay
The first Cutter to transit the Suez Canal and Indian Ocean
Lost in a collision on 13 June 1917
CGH
USRC/USCGC Apache
(former Galveston
aka Frank Galveston)
190'
1900 - 1937 Commisioned in 1891 as Galveston
Renamed Apache in 1900
Decommisioned 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
CGH
USRC/USCGC Seminole 188' 1900 - 1934   CGH
USRC/USCGC Tuscarora 178' 1902 - 1936   CGH
USRC/USCGC Pamlico 158' 1907 - 1946 Designed with a shallow draft for inland cruising
Stationed in New Bern, NC and became a fixture in the community
Transported many Congressional and press parties to New Bern
Naval Reserve training ship in WWI
Classified a WPR in 1939 and served through WWII
One of her crewmen from 1940 to 1943 was Steward's Mate Alex Haley
When informed of her pending decommissioning, New Bern had their
Congressman intercede with the Commandant to save the ship
Finally decommissioned on 6 September 1946 after 40 years of service
A plaque commemorating her service was dedicated on 28 April 1990
Alex Haley helped in the dedication
CGH
USRC/USCGC Acushnet 152' 1908 - 1936   CGH
USRC/USCGC Androscoggin 210' 1908 - 1921 Largest wooden RC (210')
Built specifically as an icebreaker
Show piece of the service for many years
Hosted several diplomats and conferences
Last wooden hulled Cutter in service
CGH
USRC/USCGC Seneca 204' 1908 - 1936 To Maritime Commision as school ship in NY, PA and MA CGH
USRC/USCGC Snohomish 152' 1908 - 1934   CGH
USRC/USCGC Tahoma 191' 1909 - 1914 Grounded and was lost CGH
USRC/USCGC Yamacraw 191' 1909 - 1937   CGH
USRC/USCGC Comanche
(former Windom) 170'
1914 - 1930 The RCS 1897 Annual report noted
Windom was the first attempt to build a "modern" cutter
Windom was completed in 1896
Fully watertight hull, longitudinal and transverse bulkheads
and a triple expansion steam plant capable of 15 kts
Fought in the Spanish-American War and WWI
Renamed Commanche in 1914
CGH
USCGC Pequot 155'
(ex USS SP-319)
1919 - 1922   NS
USCGC York 125'
(ex USS Chilhowee SP-525)
1919 - 1922   NS
USCGC Green 115'
(aka William F. Green)
1920 - 1922 Schooner rig  
USCGC Redwing 187'
(ex USS Redwing
(AM-48/ARS-4)
1924 - 1941 Lapwing Class AM/ARS
Acquired from the Navy as a Cruising Cutter
NS
USCGC Northland 216' 1927 - 1946 Built as a replacement for the venerable Bear
Performed on Bering Sea Patrol doing
"everything under the midnight sun"
Transferred to Boston in 1938 in preparation for war
Flagship of the Greenland Parol
Siezed Norwegian sealer Buskoe - a German supply ship
First siezure of the war - 12 Sep 1941
Sold to an American company working with the Israeli underground
Renamed Jewish State, she ran refugees to Israel
First warship of the Israeli Navy in 1948 - Renamed Matzpen
Ended as an accomodations ship for Port Command Haifa
Decommissioned and sold in 1962
CGH