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UNITED STATES COAST GUARD (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

COAST GUARD SHIPS AND CRAFT

GRESHAM cutters (1897 - 1898)

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
CG1, 5.1943- WPG85 Gresham   Globe I W, Cleveland 1/1896 12.9.1896 5.1897 to USN as gunboat 3.1898-8/1898, to USN as gunboat 4.1917-8/1919, sold 1.1935, commissioned again 5.1943, sold 4.1944
CG2 Manning   Atlantic Wks, Boston 1896 11.8.1897 1/1898 to USN as gunboat USN 3.1898-8/1898, to USN as gunboat 4.1917-8/1919, sold 12.1930
CG4 Algonquin   Globe I W, Cleveland 1897 8.12.1897 6.1898 sold 12.1930
CG5 Onondaga   Globe I W, Cleveland 1897 23.12.1897 10/1898 to USN as gunboat 4.1917-8/1919, sold 1924

 

Displacement normal, t

936

Displacement full, t

1190

Length, m

62.6 oa 58.8 wl

Breadth, m

9.75

Draught, m

3.35

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 4 single-end boilers

Power, h. p.

2500

Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

4 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss Mk I/II

Complement

73

Project history: Last USCG cutters rigged for sail. Manning had composite hull, others were steel-hulled. Gresham, Algonquin and Manning were cut in two and transferred from Great Lakes to Baltimore.

Modernizations: 1916, Algonquin, Manning: were converted to oil fuel, old boilers were replaced by 2 Babcock & Wilcox

1917, Algonquin, Gresham: were armed with 4 x 1 - 76/50 Mk II/III/V/VI

1917, Manning: was armed with 4 x 1 - 102/50 Mk IX

Naval service: No significant events.

Manning

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