USCGC Thetis (WPC-115)
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Thetis |
Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
Completed | 9 November 1931[1] |
Commissioned | 1 December 1931 |
Decommissioned | 1 July 1947 |
Fate | Sold 1 July 1948 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Thetis-class patrol boat |
Displacement | 337 long tons (342 t) |
Length | 165 ft (50 m) |
Beam | 25 ft 3 in (7.70 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Complement | 50 |
Armament |
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USCGC Thetis (WPC-115), a steel-hulled, diesel-powered Thetis-class patrol boat of the United States Coast Guard.[2]
History
Coast Guard service
The contract for her construction was awarded to the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine on 21 January 1931. She was commissioned as Coast Guard Patrol Boat No. 1 on 1 December 1931.[1][3]
Assigned to the homeport of
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World War II
At the time of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Thetis was operating out of Key West. In or around February 1942, Thetis was classified as a patrol craft and given the hull classification symbol WPC-115.[3]
Thetis's antisubmarine warfare (ASW) training missions were conducted along with local patrol and escort duties out of Key West from 1941 to June 1945. On 13 June 1942, Thetis located U-157 and sunk her in a single depth charge attack. On 7 January 1944 she rescued seven survivors from USS St. Augustine which had accidentally been rammed by merchant tanker Camas Meadows off the coast of Cape May, New Jersey.[4][5]
Post war service
In June 1945, Thetis was assigned to air-sea rescue service with the
Citations
References used
- "St Augustine PG-54". HistoryCentral.com. History Central. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- Canney, Donald L. (1995). U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790–1935. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-55750-101-1.
- Dropkin, Les (January 2002). "The Thetis Class Coast Guard Patrol Boats" (PDF). Potomac Association.
- 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.