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Tahoe

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
WPG45	Chelan	1411	Fore River, Quincy	11/1927	19.5.1928	9.1928	to United Kindom 5.1941-2/1946 (Lulworth), sold 10.1947
WPG46	Pontchartrain	1412	Fore River, Quincy	11/1927	16.6.1928	10.1928	to United Kingdom 4.1941 (Hartland)
WPG47	Tahoe	1413	Fore River, Quincy	12/1927	12.6.1928	11.1928	to United Kindom 4.1941-3/1946 (Fishguard), sold 10.1947
WPG48, 3.1946- WPG319	Champlain	1414	Fore River, Quincy	5/1928	11.10.1928	1.1929	to United Kindom 5.1941-3/1946 (Sennen), sold 3.1948
WPG49	Mendota	1415	Fore River, Quincy	6/1928	27.11.1928	3.1929	to United Kingdom 4.1941 (Culver)
WPG50, 4.1946- WPG321	Itasca		General Engineering, Alameda		16.11.1929	7.1930	to United Kindom 5.1941-4/1946 (Gorleston), stricken 9.1950
WPG51	Sebago		General Engineering, Alameda		2.10.1930	9.1930	to United Kingdom 5.1941 (Walney)
WPG52, 2.1946- WPG164	Saranac, 2.1946- Sebec, 5.1947- Tampa		General Engineering, Alameda		12.4.1930	10.1930	to United Kindom 4.1941-2/1946 (Banff), sold 2.1959
WPG53	Shoshone		General Engineering, Alameda		11.9.1930	1/1931	to United Kingdom 5.1941 (Landguard)
WPG54, 5.1946- WPG163	Cayuga, 5.1946- Mocoma	797	Staten Island SB, Port Richmond		7.10.1931	3.1932	to United Kindom 5.1941-5/1946 (Totland), sold 7.1955

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1662 trials
Displacement full, t	2075
Length, m	72.9 wl 76.2 oa
Breadth, m	12.8
Draught, m	3.94 trials
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 electric motor, 1 General Electric turbine-generator, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	3350
Max speed, kts	17
Fuel, t	oil 300
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 127/51 Mk 7.8, 1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 10, 2 x 1 - 57/50 Mk 8
Complement	97

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Project history Cutters intended for service in Northern Atlantic (ice circumstances observation, for what their hulls were strengthened). Machinery of the ships included spread enough in th

Cutters intended for service in Northern Atlantic (ice circumstances observation, for what their hulls were strengthened). Machinery of the ships included spread enough in the USA turbo-electric gear. They were differed good habitability for their dimensions, however a number of the lacks was generic in them, not allowing to consider them as rigorous combat ships: the hull had insufficient subdivision on watertight compartments, bulkheads did not reach an upper deck which besides on the big extent was wood (not steel, sheathed by a wood, and continuous wood as by sailing frigates). Modernizations: 1946, Tahoe was returned with armament: 1 x 1 - 102/45 CP Mk II, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk III, 2 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 7 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk X ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100)

1946, Chelan, Champlain, Mocoma were returned with armament: 1 x 1 - 102/45 CP Mk II, 1 x 1 - 76/45 Mk II, 2 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk X ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100), presumably type 271 or type 277 radar

1946, Itasca was returned with armament: 1 x 1 - 102/45 CP Mk II, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk III, 4 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk X ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100), presumably type 271 or type 277 radar

1946, Sebec was returned with armament: 1 x 1 - 102/45 CP Mk II, 3 x 1 - 76/45 Mk II, 7 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk X ASWRL, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (100), presumably type 271 or type 277 radar

1947, Itasca, Tampa, Mocoma were presumably armed with 1 x 1 - 127/51 Mk 13, (2-3) x 1 - 76/50 Mk 21/22, (2-4) x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, presumably type 271 or type 277 radar

Naval service

All ships of class were transferred to Royal Navy by lend-lease.