USCGC Woodbine
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USCGC Woodbine (WAGL-289/WLB-289) was a United States Coast Guard buoy tender.
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Woodbine alongside the burned out hulk of USS LST-480 on 22 May 1944, the day after the West Loch Disaster | |
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United States | |
Name | USCGC Woodbine (WLB-289) |
Namesake | Woodbine (plant) |
Builder | Zenith Dredge Company, Duluth, Minnesota |
Cost | $1,156,000 |
Laid down | 2 February 1942 |
Launched | 3 July 1942 |
Commissioned | 17 November 1942 |
Decommissioned | 15 February 1972 |
Reclassified | WLB-289, 1965 |
Identification | IMO number: 8884490 |
Fate | Donated to Cleveland Public School System, 19 June 1972, sold, scrapped August 2008 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | USCG seagoing buoy tender |
Displacement | 1,025 long tons (1,041 t) (1966) |
Length | 180 ft (55 m) |
Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 13 ft (4.0 m) (1966) |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km; 13,000 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (1942) |
Complement | 53 (1966) |
Armament | Small arms only |
Notes | 20-ton boom with electric hoist |
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The ship, a 180 feet (55 m) Cactus- or A-class tender, was built in Duluth, Minnesota by the Zenith Dredge Company, laid down on 2 February 1942, launched on 3 July 1942, and commissioned on 17 November 1942, as Woodbine (WAGL-289).[1]