About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: USCGC Yakutat, USCGC Gresham, USCGC Bering Strait, USCGC Barataria, USCGC Cook Inlet, USCGC Half Moon, USS Tacoma, USCGC Point Cypress, USCGC Castle Rock, USCGC Owasco, USCGC Point League, USCGC Point Partridge, USCGC Point Hudson, USCGC Mendota, USCGC Point White, USS Marathon, USCGC Point Grace, USCGC Point Young, USCGC Point Clear, USCGC Point Dume, USCGC Point Comfort, USCGC Point Mast, USCGC Point Grey, USCGC Point Glover, USCGC Point Marone, USCGC Point Kennedy, USCGC Point Welcome, USCGC Point Jefferson, USCGC Sebago, USCGC Winnebago, USCGC Point Gammon, USCGC Point Slocum, USCGC Point Garnet, USCGC Point Arden, USCGC Point Banks, USCGC Point Ellis, USCGC Point Orient, USCGC Point Lomas, USCGC Point Caution, USS Asheville, USCGC Androscoggin, USCGC Pontchartrain, USCGC Winona, USCGC Minnetonka, USCGC Chautauqua, USCGC Escanaba, USCGC Wachusett, USCGC Klamath, USCGC Iroquois, USS Gallup. Excerpt: USCGC Yakutat (WAVP-380), later WHEC-380, was a Casco-class United States Coast Guard cutter in service from 1948 to 1971. Yakutat began life as the United States Navy Barnegat-class seaplane tender USS Yakutat (AVP-32). She was laid down on 1 April 1942 by Associated Shipbuilders, Inc. at Seattle, Washington, launched on 2 July 1943, and commissioned into the U.S. Navy on 31 March 1944. She served in the Central Pacific during World War II and on occupation duty in Japan postwar. She was decommissioned on 29 July 1946 and placed in reserve at Alameda, California. Barnegat-class ships were very reliable and seaworthy and had good habitability, and the Coast Guard viewed them as ideal for ocean station duty, in which they would perform weather reporting and search and rescue tasks, once they were modified by having a balloon shelter added aft and having oceanographic equipment, an oceanographic winch, and a...
