USCGC Tallapoosa
![]() USCGC Tallapoosa (WPG-52) in 1920.
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Name | Tallapoosa |
Namesake | Tallapoosa River, Georgia |
Operator | United States Coast Guard |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding[3] |
Cost | $225,000 USD[2] |
Launched | 1 May 1915[1] |
Commissioned | 12 August 1915 |
Decommissioned | 8 November 1945 |
Fate | Sold, 22 July 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 912 tons[3] |
Length | 165 ft 10 in |
Beam | 32 ft |
Draft | 11 ft 9 in |
Propulsion | Triple-expansion steam, 17", 27", and 44" diameter x 30" stroke, 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 1,000 shaft horsepower |
Speed | 12 knots |
Complement | 9 officers, 63 enlisted |
Armament | 4 × 6-pounders (1915); 2 × 6-pdrs; 2 × 3" 50-cal (single-mounts) (as of 1930); 2 × 3"/50 (single-mounts); 1 × 3"/23; 2 × depth charge tracks (as of 1941); 2 × 3"/50 (single-mounts); 2 × 20mm/80 (single-mounts); 2 × Mousetraps; 4 × K-guns; 2 × depth charge tracks (as of 1945). |
USCGC Tallapoosa (WPG-52) was a
History
Tallapoosa left Newport News, Virginia towed by
From 6 April 1917 until 28 August 1919, the U.S. Coast Guard was temporarily under the control of the
In September 1918 she was sent to
Postwar Gulf of Mexico service
On 4 March 1920, Tallapoosa resumed her patrols and returned to her old home port of Mobile. On 11 October 1920, she was assigned to the Gulf Division. On 3 August 1921 Tallapoosa arrived at
Bering Sea Patrol
Tallapoosa departed Juneau on 13 April 1931 for
Savannah, Georgia
Tallapoosa departed Seattle for hew new permanent station at
In March 1941,
During January 1943, the principal activity of Tallapoosa was as an observing vessel for tests in connection with shore blackouts. She operated from the section base at
Decommissioning
Tallapoosa was decommissioned on 18 November 1945. On 22 July 1946 Tallapoosa was sold to the Caribbean Fruit and Steamship Company and renamed Santa Maria.[3][1][14]
Tallapoosa's ships bell now resides in Tallapoosa, Georgia.[15]
Notes
- Footnotes
- ^ All U.S. Coast Guard cutters serving with the U.S. Navy during World War I were designated "USS" even though they kept their Coast Guard crews. Tallapoosa was known as USS Tallapoosa while under Navy control.[5]
- Miami, Florida, area. Coast Guard stations at Fort Lauderdale and Biscayne Bay were demolished and the floating base Mocassin[11] and two patrol boats were driven ashore at Miami[10]
- Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Tallapoosa, 1915", Cutters, Craft & U.S. Coast Guard-Manned Army & Navy Vessels, U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
- ^ Scheina(1982), p 35
- ^ a b c Canney, p 68
- ^ a b c d e f Record of Movements, pp 432–433
- ^ Larzelere, p 259
- ^ Larzelere, p 38
- ^ a b Larzelere, p 86
- ^ a b Larzelere, p 95
- ^ "Japanese Army Auxiliary Transports". www.combinedfleet.com. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
- ^ a b Johnson, p 99
- ^ Canney, p 85
- ^ Johnson, pp 182–183
- ^ Walling, p 14
- ^ Scheina(1990), p 36
- ^ "U.S. Cutter Tallapoosa 1915 (Bell)", Tallapoosa, Georgia website
- References cited
- "Record of Movements, Vessels of the United States Coast Guard, 1790–December 31, 1933" (PDF). U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation.
- "Tallapoosa, 1915". Cutters, Craft & U.S. Coast Guard-Manned Army & Navy Vessels. U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
- "U.S. Cutter Tallapoosa 1915 (Bell)". Tallapoosa, Georgia website. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- Canney, Donald L. (1995). U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790–1935. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-55750-101-1.
- Larzelere, Alex (2003). The Coast Guard in World War I: An Untold Story. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-55750-476-0.
- Scheina, Robert L. (1982). U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft of World War II. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-0-87021-717-3.
- Scheina, Robert L. (1990). U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft, 1946–1990. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-0-87021-719-7.
- Walling, Michael G. (2004). Bloodstained Sea: the U.S. Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941–1944. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, Camden, Maine. ISBN 978-0-07-142401-1.
External links
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