USCGC Winona
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USCGC Winona (WHEC-65) was an Owasco class high endurance cutter built for World War II service with the United States Coast Guard. The war ended before the ship was completed and consequently she did not see wartime service until the Vietnam War.
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USCGC Winona (WHEC-65), circa 1965 | |
History | |
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United States | |
Owner | US Coast Guard |
Builder | Western Pipe & Steel |
Cost | $4,239,702 (hull and machinery)[1] |
Laid down | 8 November 1944[1] |
Launched | 22 April 1945[1] |
Christened | Winona |
Commissioned | 19 April 1946[1] |
Decommissioned | 31 May 1974[1] |
Reclassified | WPG-65 to WHEC-65 |
Fate | Scrapped, 1974[2] |
Notes | WPS Hull No. 152. |
General characteristics | |
Type | Owasco-class cutter |
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Length | |
Beam | 43 ft 1 in (13.1 m) |
Draft | 17 ft 3 in (5.3 m) (1966) |
Installed power | 4,000 shp (3,000 kW) (1945) |
Propulsion | 1 x Westinghouse electric motor driven by a turbine, (1945) |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph). |
Range |
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Complement | 10 officers, 3 warrants, 130 enlisted (1966) |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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Notes | Fuel capacity: 141,755 gal (Oil, 95%). |
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Winona was built by Western Pipe & Steel at the company's San Pedro shipyard. Named after Winona Lake, Indiana, she was commissioned as a patrol gunboat with ID number WPG-65 on 19 April 1946. Her ID was later changed to WHEC-65 (HEC for "High Endurance Cutter" - the "W" signifies a Coast Guard vessel)[3][4]