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Special Mission Cutters

Pequot

Cable Layer

Designation Name Class Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
               
USCGC Pequot
(ex USAMP General
Samuel M. Mills)
166 Mine Planter WARC 58 1922 - 1946 Acquired from the Army
Used for cable laying missions
NS

Floating Workshop

Designation Name Class Classification Hull Num Service Comments Pictures
               
USCGC Alpha 113 YR Floating Workshop YR 1 1928 - 1940    

Merchant Marine Training Cutters

Designation Name Class Classification Hull Num Service Comments Picture
               
USCGC American Seaman
(ex Edgemoor)
1919 Freighter 380 WIX   1939 - 1942 Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC El Cano 1927 Yacht 145 WIX   1939 - 1942 Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC Joseph Conrad
(ex Danish Georg Stage)
1882 Square Rigger 111 WIX   1939 - 1942 Used for merchant marine training
Build in 1882 as a Danish Navy training ship
Bought by Allen Villers in 1934 and sailed round the world
Bought by George Hartford, founder or Great A&P Tea Co
Used as a private yacht
Donated to Coast Guard in 1939 as training ship
Transerred to Mystic Seaport as exhibit in 1946
Mystic
USCGC Tusitala
(ex Sophie)
(ex Sierra Lucena)
(ex Inverglas)
1883 Square rigger 261 WIX   1940 - 1942 Built in 1883
Last ship built by the R. Steel yard in Greenock, Scotland
Originally used in the wool trade
1923: Personal yacht of James Farrell, President of US Steel
Last US flagged sailing ship in commercial service
Acquired by the Coast Guard and used for merchant marine training
CGAA
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USCGC American Sailor
(ex Edgemont)
1919 Freighter 409 WIX   1941 - 1942 Used for merchant marine training
 
USCGC American Mariner
(ex George Calvert)
Z3-EC2-SC1 441
Liberty Ship
WIX   1941 - 1942 Acquired by the Navy as a transport
Turned over to the CG and used for merchant marine training
Laid up in reserve from 1945 to 1950 and 1953 to 1958
1958: to the Army as a missile tracking vessel
1964: to the Air Force as a missile tracking ship
1966: scuttled upright in 20' of water in the Chesapeake
Used as a target ship at NAS Pax River until 1971
The hulk is still visible
Only vessel to serve with the USN, USCG, USA, and USAF
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USCGC Annapolis Unk WIX   1941 - Unk Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC Boston 1924 Coastal
Passenger/Freighter 385
WIX   1941 - 1942 Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC Delta Queen 1926 Riverboat 250 WIX   1941 - 1942 Yes, THAT Delta Queen
Began life in 1926 as an excursion boat on the Sacramento River
Used by the Coast Guard for merchant marine training from 1941 to 1943
Used by the Navy from 1943 to 1945
Moved to the Mississippt River in 1946
Listed on National Regsitry of Historic Places in 1970
Declared National Historic Landmark in 1989
Ceased operation in 2008 when SOLAS waiver expired
Currently a hotel/resteraunt in Chattanooga
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USCGC Empire State
(ex Shaume)
(ex Procyon)
WWI Merchantman 390
"Hog Islander"
WIX   1941 - 1942 Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC New York 1924 Coastal
Passenger/Freight 385
WIX   1941 - 1942 Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC Vema 1923 Yacht 182 WIX   1941 - 1942 Built in 1923 as E. F. Hutton's luxury yacht Hussar
Sold to Norwegian shipping magnate Unger Vetlesen who renamed her Vema
Donated to the American war effort by Vetlesen's wife
Orginally used in coastal patrol, then in merchant marine training
After the war became a research vessel of Lamont Geological Observatory
(Lamont-Doherty)
Vema Seamount and Vema Channel are named for her
1982 - operated by Windjammer Barefoot Cruises as Mandalay
Laid up in 2008 when Windjammer went ourt of business
LD
USCGC American Seafarer
(ex Allegheny)
1919 Coastal
Passanger/Freighter 350
WIX   1942 - 1942 Used for merchant marine training NHC
USCGC Berkshire 1923 Coastal
Passenger/Freighter 350
WIX   1942 - 1942 Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC City of Chatanooga 1923 Coastal
Passenger/Freighter 382
WIX   1942 - 1942 Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC MacNichol Unk WIX   1942 - Unk Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC Mayfair
(former USLHT Pansy)
1877 LHT 152     1942 - 1945 The LHT Pansy was commissioned in 1877
Decommissioned and sold commercially in 1933
Chartered by the Navy in 1941 and turned over to the Coast Guard
Used for merchant marine training
CGH
USCGC Nenemoosha Unk WIX   1942 - 1942 Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC Queen of Peace Unk WIX   1942 - Unk Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC Alexander Graham Bell EC2-S-C1 427
Liberty Ship
WIX 184 1944 - 1944 Used for merchant marine training Link
USCGC Bibbeville Unk WIX   Unk Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC Bison Misc WIX   Unk Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC Bay State
(ex Nantucket)
1876 Freighter 274 WIX   Unk - 1942 Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC Felix Reisenberg Unk WIX   Unk Used for merchant marine training  
USCGC Keystone State Unk WIX   Unk Used for merchant marine training  

Floating Machine Shop

Designation Name Class Classification Hull Num Service Comments Picture
               
USCGC Beta
(Former Alexander Hamilton)
Misc CGC 168 WIX 272 1942 - 1944 Replaced Alpha as the floating workshop at the Yard in Curtis Bay  

Cargo Ship

Type C1-M-AV1

Designation Name Classification Hul Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Unalga
(ex USS Tipton)
MC/AKA/WAK 2169/215/185 1945 - 1950 Used for LORAN construction  
USCGC Kukui
(ex USS Colquit)
AK/WAK 174/186 1946 - 1972 Used for LORAN support - To the Philippines CGH
CGP

Yamacraw

Cable Layer

Designation Name Classification Hul Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Yamacraw
(ex General Arthur Murray)
(ex USS Trapper)
ACM/WARC 9/333 1946 - 1959 Acquired from the Army as a cable layer NS

Cargo Ship

US Army Freighter, Small

Designation Name Classification Hul Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Trillium (ex FS-397) WAK 170 1946 - 1950 Used for LORAN construction  
USCGC Spruce (ex FS-422) WAK 246 1946 - 1950 Used for LORAN construction  
USCGC Nettle (ex FS-396) WAK 169 1947 - 1968 Used for LORAN construction CGP

Governors Island Ferries

Designation Name Classification Hul Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Lieutenant Samuel S. Coursen     1966 - 1997    
USCGC Major General     1966 - 1970    
USCGC Pvt. Nicholas Minue     1966 - 1997    
USCGC The Tides     1966 - 1997    
USCGC Governor     1982 - 1997    

USCGC Neverbuilt

Oceanographic Research Ship

Designation Name Classification Hul Num Service Comments Pictures
             
USCGC Joseph Henry
(aka CGC Neverbuilt)
WHEO 701   Proposed in 1971
Never funded - victim of NOAA
CGH