USCGC Dogwood

USCGC Dogwood (WAGL-259/WLR-259) was a 114-foot river buoy tender of the United States Coast Guard. Constructed by the Dubuque Boat & Boiler Works Company in Dubuque, Iowa, she was commissioned in 1941 and served until 1989. She was stationed at Vicksburg, Mississippi and later Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She had an active career, from tending ATON to escorting the NASA rocket barge Palaemon on three occasions and assisting in the cleanup operation along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Betsy.^[1]

History
United States
Name	USCGC Dogwood
Namesake	Dogwood
Builder	Dubuque Boat & Boiler Works, Dubuque, Iowa
Commissioned	17 September 1941
Decommissioned	11 August 1989
General characteristics [1]
Class & type	Sycamore-class buoy tender
Displacement	280 tons
Length	113 ft 9 in (34.67 m)
Beam	26 ft (7.9 m)
Draft	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Propulsion	2 × General Motors diesel engines 800 bhp (597 kW) 2 shafts
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement	20
Armament	Small arms

The ship had three nicknames: Dogfood, Divorce Boat, "The Dog.^[2]