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UNITED STATES COAST GUARD (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

COAST GUARD SHIPS AND CRAFT

OSSIPEE cutters (1915)

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
CG26, 1942- WPG50 Ossipee   Newport News 1915 1.5.1915 7.1915 to USN as gunboat 4.1917-8/1919, to USN as gunboat 11.1941, sold 9.1946
CG27, 1942- WPG52 Tallapoosa   Newport News 1915 1.5.1915 8.1915 to USN as gunboat 4.1917-8/1919, sold 7.1946

 

Displacement normal, t

964

Displacement full, t

997

Length, m

50.5

Breadth, m

9.75

Draught, m

3.58

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers

Power, h. p.

1000

Max speed, kts

12.7

Fuel, t

oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 3500

Armament

2 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III, 1 DCT ("Y"-gun)

Complement

72

Project history: Cutters built for Revenue Cutter service and commissioned by Coast Guard.

Modernizations: 1930, both: - 1 DCT; + 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 10

1941, both: - 2 x 1 - 57/50; + 1 x 1 - 76/23 Mk 4.9.13/14, 2 DCR

1942 - 1943, both: - 1 x 1 - 76/23; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 4 DCT, SO or SU radar

1.1946: 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 11, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap Mk 20 ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR, SO or SU radar

Naval service: No significant events.

Ossipee 1927

Tallapoosa 1944

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