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UNITED STATES COAST GUARD (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

COAST GUARD SHIPS AND CRAFT

SNOHOMISH class cutters (1908)

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
CG16 Snohomish   Pusey & Jones, Wilmington 1907 14.3.1908 11.1908 to USN as gunboat 4.1917-8/1919, sold 1934
  Acushnet   Newport News 1907 16.5.1908 11/1908 to USN as gunboat 4.1917-9/1919, sold 5.1936

 

Displacement normal, t

800

Displacement full, t

879

Length, m

42.5 pp 46.3 oa

Breadth, m

8.84

Draught, m

4.19

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 Babcock & Wilcox boiler, 1 single-end boiler

Power, h. p.

1200

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/45 Driggs-Schroeder heavy Mk I

Complement

53

Project history: These ships primarily were intended for service as seagoing rescue tugs.

Modernizations: 1917, both: - 2 x 1 - 37/45; + 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk II/III/V/VI, 2 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II.

Naval service:  No significant events.

Snohomish

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