USS Cook Inlet
USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36) off Houghton, Washington, on 3 November 1944, two days before commissioning.
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Name | USS Cook Inlet |
Namesake | Cook Inlet, on the coast of Alaska north of Kodiak |
Builder | Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, Washington |
Laid down | 23 August 1943 |
Launched | 13 May 1944 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. H. K. Stubbs |
Commissioned | 5 November 1944 |
Decommissioned | 31 March 1946 |
Honors and awards | One battle star for World War II service |
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United States | |
Name | USCGC Cook Inlet (WAVP-384) |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
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Commissioned | 15 January 1949 |
Reclassified | High endurance cutter (WHEC-384) 1 May 1966 |
Decommissioned | 21 December 1971[1] |
Honors and awards | Two campaign stars for Vietnam War service |
Fate | Transferred to South Vietnam 21 December 1971 |
South Vietnam | |
Name | RVNS Trần Quốc Toản (HQ-06) |
Namesake | Trần Quốc Toản (1267–1285), a general and prince of the Trần dynasty |
Acquired | 21 December 1971 |
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Philippines | |
Acquired | 5 April 1976 |
Commissioned | never |
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General characteristics (seaplane tender) | |
Class and type | Barnegat-class small seaplane tender |
Displacement | 1,766 tons (light); 2,750 tons (full load) |
Length | 311 ft 8 in (95.00 m) |
Beam | 41 ft 1 in (12.52 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
Installed power | 6000 megawatts ) |
Propulsion | Diesel engines, two shafts |
Speed | 18.6 knots (34 km/h) |
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Aviation facilities | Supplies, spare parts, repairs, and berthing for one seaplane squadron; 80,000 US gallons (300,000 L) aviation fuel |
General characteristics (Coast Guard cutter) | |
Class and type | Casco-class cutter |
Displacement | 2,528.7 tons (full load) in 1966 |
Length | 309 ft 10.125 in (94.44038 m) overall; 298 ft 11.125 in (91.11298 m) between perpendiculars |
Beam | 41 ft 0 in (12.50 m) maximum |
Draft | 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) at full load in 1966 |
Installed power | 6,080 bhp (4,530 kW) |
Propulsion | Fairbanks-Morse geared diesel engines, two shafts; 166,601 US gallons (630,650 L) of fuel |
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Complement | 151 (10 officers, 3 warrant officers , 138 enlisted personnel) in 1966 |
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Armament | In 1966: 1 x single 5-inch (127 mm) 38- antisubmarine projector; 2 x Mark 32 Mod 5 torpedo launchers |
General characteristics (South Vietnamese frigate) | |
Class and type | Trần Quang Khải-class frigate |
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Length | 310 ft 9 in (94.72 m) (overall); 300 ft 0 in (91.44 m) waterline |
Beam | 41 ft 1 in (12.52 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 5 in (4.09 m) |
Installed power | 6,080 megawatts ) |
Propulsion | 2 x Fairbanks Morse 38D diesel engines |
Speed | approximately 18 knots (maximum) |
Complement | approximately 200 |
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USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36) was a
Construction and commissioning
World War II
Cook Inlet departed San Diego, California, on January 15, 1945 and arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on January 21, 1945. She tended seaplanes at Hilo, Hawaii, from January 25, 1945 to January 31, 1945.
Cook Inlet arrived off Saipan on February 26, 1945 to serve with the escort and patrol group based there, and from March 2, 1945 to March 14, 1945 was on an air-sea rescue station during the invasion of Iwo Jima. Cook Inlet rescued 27 survivors of downed bombers. She was still on duty at Iwo Jima when hostilities with Japan ended on August 15, 1945, bringing World War II to a close.
Honors and awards
Cook Inlet received one
Post-World War II
Cook Inlet remained on duty off Iwo Jima until 29 November 1945, when she sailed to
Decommissioning
Cook Inlet was
United States Coast Guard service
The Navy loaned Cook Inlet to the Coast Guard on 20 September 1948. After undergoing conversion for Coast Guard use, she was commissioned into the Coast Guard on 15 January 1949 as USCGC Cook Inlet (WAVP-384).
Service history
North Atlantic
Cook Inlet's
On 12 October 1953, Cook Inlet rendezvoused with the Coast Guard cutter
Cook Inlet took part in the United States Coast Guard Academy cadet cruise of August 1965.
On 28 January 1966, Cook Inlet rescued survivors in of a swamped pleasure craft. Between 3 and 8 February 1966, she escorted the distressed
Cook Inlet was reclassified as a high endurance cutter
On 8 January 1968, Cook Inlet evacuated a crewman in medical distress from the Swedish merchant ship California.
Vietnam War
Cook Inlet was assigned to Coast Guard Squadron Three in South Vietnam on 2 July 1971. Coast Guard Squadron Three was tasked to operate in conjunction with U.S. Navy forces in Operation Market Time, the interdiction of North Vietnamese arms and munitions traffic along the coastline of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The squadron's other Vietnam War duties included fire support for ground forces, resupplying Coast Guard and Navy patrol boats, and search-and-rescue operations. Cook Inlet served in this capacity until 21 December 1971.
Honors and awards
Cook Inlet earned two
- Consolidation I 16 July 1971 – 9 August 1971, 27 August 1971 – 15 September 1971, 1 October 1971 – 24 October 1971, and 22 November 1971 – 30 November 1971
- Consolidation II 1 December 1971 – 15 December 1971
Decommissioning
The Coast Guard decommissioned Cook Inlet in South Vietnam on 21 December 1971, the day her Vietnam War tour ended.
On 21 December 1971 – the day the Coast Guard decommissioned her – Cook Inlet was transferred to South Vietnam, which commissioned her into the
When South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War in late April 1975, Trần Quốc Toản became a ship without a country. She fled to Subic Bay in the Philippines, packed with South Vietnamese refugees. On 22 and 23 May 1975, a U.S. Coast Guard team inspected Trần Quốc Toản and five of her sister ships, which also had fled to the Philippines in April 1975. One of the inspectors noted: "These vessels brought in several hundred refugees and are generally rat-infested. They are in a filthy, deplorable condition. Below decks generally would compare with a garbage scow."[4]
The
The former Trần Quốc Toản was discarded in 1982 and probably scrapped.[6]
References
- decommissionedCook Inlet on 27 December 1970.
- ^ Sources do not specify which ships of the class mounted mortars or how many they mounted; see Jane's Fighting Ship 1973-1974, p. 592.
- ^ Per Janes's Fighting Ships 1973-1974, p. 592, "HQ" is an abbreviation for "Hai Quan", Vietnamese for "Navy", used for all Republic of Vietnam Navy ships.
- ^ This quote, from the U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office at http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/McCulloch_1946.pdf Archived 24 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine, is unattributed.
- ^ NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive at http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/43/4336.htm Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ United States Coast Guard Historian's Office at http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/CookInlet1949.asp Archived 31 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here. for USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36)
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here. for USS Wilkinson (DL-5)
- NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36) USCGC Cook Inlet (WAVP-384 / WHEC-384)
- Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Cook Inlet (AVP-36), 1944-1948
- United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: Cook Inlet, 1949 WHEC-384 Radio call sign: NYLW
- United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: Mackinac, 1949 WHEC-371
- USS Chambers (DE-391) & USCGC Chambers (WDE-491)
- United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: Gresham, 1947 AGP-9; AVP-57; WAVP / WHEC / WAGW-387 ex-USS Willoughby Radio call sign: NODB
- United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: McCulloch, 1946 WAVP / WHEC-386
- The Inventory of VNN's Battle Ships Part 1 Archived 25 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- Chesneau, Roger. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. New York: Mayflower Books, Inc., 1980. ISBN 0-8317-0303-2.
- Gardiner, Robert. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1982, Part I: The Western Powers. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983. ISBN 0-87021-918-9.
- Gray, Randal, Ed. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1982 Part II: The Warsaw Pact and Non-Aligned Nations. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983. ISBN 0-87021-919-7.
- Moore, John, Captain, RN, FRGS, Ed. Jane's Fighting Ships 1973-1974. London: Jane's Yearbooks, 1973. No ISBN.
External links
- Photo gallery of Cook Inlet at NavSource Naval History