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UNITED STATES COAST GUARD (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

COAST GUARD SHIPS AND CRAFT

OSSIPEE cutters

No Name Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
CG26, 1942- WPG50 Ossipee Newport News 1915 1/5/1915 7/1915 USN 4/1917-8/1919, from 11/1941, sold 9/1946
CG27, 1942- WPG52 Tallapoosa Newport News 1915 1/5/1915 8/1915 USN 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

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/(30 - 50) Mk 1 - 10, 1 DCT ("Y"-gun)

Complement

72

Ship 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/(30-50); + 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 Oerlikon, 2 x 4 - 178 Mousetrap DCT, 4 DCT.

Naval service: No significant events.

Ossipee 1927

Tallapoosa 1944

 

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