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COAST GUARD SHIPS AND CRAFT

GRESHAM cutters

No Name Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
CG1, 5/1943- WPG85 Gresham Globe I W, Cleveland 1/1896 12/9/1896 5/1897 USN 3/1898-8/1898, 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 USN 3/1898-8/1898, 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 USN 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

VTE, 4 single-end boilers

Power, h. p.

2500

Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm (kts)  

Armament

4 x 1 - 57/(30 - 50) Mk 1 - 10

Complement

73

Ship 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 2/3/5/6/8

1917, Manning: was armed with 4 x 1 - 102/50 Mk 9.

Naval service: No significant events.

Manning

 

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