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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