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COAST GUARD SHIPS AND CRAFT

BEAR revenue service cutter (1874 / 1885)

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
  Bear   A. Stephen, Dundee, UK   1874 1874 // 3.1885 to USN 4.1917 - 10.1919 as gunboat, sold 5.1929, to USN 6.1932 - 6.1944 as gunboat, stricken 6.1944

 

Displacement normal, t

703

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

60.5

Breadth, m

9.15

Draught, m

5.46

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VCE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

 

Max speed, kts

 

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

3 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I

Complement

51

Project history: Revenue service cutter, originally built commercially.

Modernizations: No data.

Naval service: No significant events.

Bear in WWII

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