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UNITED STATES COAST GUARD (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

COAST GUARD SHIPS AND CRAFT

ANDROSCOGGIN cutter (1908)

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
CG14 Androscoggin   Rodermond, Tompkins Cove 1906 16.1.1907 7/1908 to USN as gunboat 4.1917-9/1919, sold 5.1922

 

Displacement normal, t

1200

Displacement full, t

1605

Length, m

57.3 pp 64.0 oa

Breadth, m

10.7

Draught, m

5.33

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 single-end boilers

Power, h. p.

1800

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

4 x 1 - 57/45 Hotchkiss Mk II/III

Complement

74

Project history: Revenue service cutter, wooden hull. First American purpose-built icebreaker.

Modernizations: 1917: - 3 x 1 - 57/45; + 3 x 1 - 76/50 Mk II/III/V/VI

Naval service: No significant events.

Androscoggin 1908

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