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UNITED STATES COAST GUARD (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

COAST GUARD SHIPS AND CRAFT

CHEROKEE cutters (1940-1945/1968-1980)

Ute 1980

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
WMEC76 Ute   United Engineering, Alameda 27.2.1942 24.6.1942 13.12.1942 // 20.3.1981 for disposal 5.1988
WMEC85 Lipan   United Engineering, Alameda 30.5.1942 17.9.1942 29.4.1943 // 30.9.1980 for disposal 3.1988
WMEC150 Avoyel   Charleston SB & Drydock 25.3.1944 9.8.1944 8.1.1945 // 1968 sold 9.1969
WMEC153 Chilula   Charleston SB & Drydock   1.12.1944 5.4.1945 // 1968 for disposal 6.1991
WMEC165 Cherokee   Bethlehem SB, Staten Island   10.11.1939 26.4.1940 // 1968 for disposal 1.1990
WMEC166 Tamaroa (ex-Zuni)   Commercial Iron Wks, Portland     9.10.1943 // 1968 preserved 2.1994

 

Displacement standard, t

1217

Displacement full, t

1731

Length, m

59.4 pp 62.5 oa

Breadth, m

11.7

Draught, m

5.18

No of shafts

1

Machinery

4 General Electric 12-278 diesel-generators, 1 electric motor

Power, h. p.

3000

Max speed, kts

16.2

Fuel, t

diesel oil 315

Endurance, nm(kts)

15000(8)

Armament

WMEC150, 153, 165, 166: 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 22

WMEC76, 85: none

Electronic equipment

2x SPS-64 radars

Complement

71

Project history: Former USN fleet tugs of Cherokee and Navajo (WMEC153) classes. Four ships were transferred to USCG from Navy in 1946-1956 as tugs and redesignated as cutters in 1968, two more were transferred in 1980-1981.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

Tamaroa 1979

 

Chilula 1988

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