USCGC Cahoone
USCGC Cahoone (WSC-131)
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Name | USCGC Cahoone |
Builder | American Brown Boveri Electric Corp., Camden, NJ |
Launched | 27 January 1927 |
Commissioned | 21 February 1927 |
Decommissioned | 11 March 1968 |
Fate | Sold 12 December 1968 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Active-class patrol boat |
Displacement | 232 tons |
Length | 125 feet |
Beam | 23.5 feet |
Draft | 7.5 feet |
Propulsion | 2 x 6-cylinder, 300 hp engines |
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Complement | 3 officers, 17 men (1960) |
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USCGC Cahoone (WPC/WSC/WMEC-131) was an Active-class patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard. Launched in 1927, she served until 1968.
Class history
This class of vessels was one of the most useful and long-lasting in the Coast Guard with 16 cutters still in use in the 1960s. The last to be decommissioned from active service was the Morris in 1970; the last in actual service was the Cuyahoga, which sank after an accidental collision in 1978. They were designed for trailing the "mother ships" along the outer line of patrol during Prohibition. They were constructed at a cost of $63,173 each. They gained a reputation for durability that was only enhanced by their re-engining in the late 1930s: their original 6-cylinder diesels were replaced by significantly more powerful 8-cylinder units that used the original engine beds and gave the vessels 3 additional knots. All served in World War II, but two, the Jackson and Bedloe, were lost in a storm in 1944. Ten were refitted as buoy tenders during the war and reverted to patrol work afterward.
Cutter history
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References
- USCGC Cahoone (1927) at US Coast Guard Historian, which cites:
- Cutter History File. USCG Historian's Office, USCG HQ, Washington, D.C.
- Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Washington, DC: USGPO.
- Robert Scheina. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft of World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982.
- Robert Scheina. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft, 1946-1990. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990.