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UNITED STATES COAST GUARD (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

COAST GUARD SHIPS AND CRAFT

MIAMI cutters (1912)

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
CG51 Miami, 2.1916- Tampa   Newport News 1911 10.2.1912 8.1912 to USN as gunboat 4.1917, sunk 26.9.1918
CG53, 1942- WPG53 Unalga   Newport News   10.2.1912 5.1912 to USN as gunboat 4.1917-8/1919, to USN as gunboat 9.1933-11/1933, to USN as gunboat 11.1941, for disposal 10.1945

 

Displacement normal, t

1181

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

57.9

Breadth, m

9.91

Draught, m

4.27

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE

Power, h. p.

1300

Max speed, kts

13

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

3 x 1 - 57/50 Driggs-Schroeder Mk II/III

Complement

 

Project history: Revenue cutters.

Modernizations: 1917, both: - 3 x 1 - 57/50; + 2 x 1 - 102/50 Mk IX, 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk II/III/V/VI, 2 DCR

1943, Unalga: - 2 x 1 - 76/50; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4, 2 DCT, SO or SU radar

Naval service:  Tampa was sunk by German submarine UB91 26.9.1918 in the English Channel.

Unalga

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