USS Aklak, 1942 (WYP-168), Aklak, ex-Weymouth
Builder: Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River, Quincy, MA
Commissioned: 1941 (Commercial); 16 July 1942 (USCG)
Decommissioned: 10 March 1944
Disposition: returned to owner 5 April 1944
Cost: Acquisition War Shipping Administration loan; $75,000 to convert
Hull: Steel-hull trawler
Displacement: (tons) 395 (1942)
Tonnage: 170 gross (1941)
Length: 116 oa; 110' bp
Beam: 22' 5" mb
Draft: 10' 6" (1942)
Machinery: Main Engines- 1 Nelseco 6-cyl. 4-cycle diesel; BHP- 375; single propeller
Maximum Speed: 10 knots
Economic Speed: 8.9 knots; 5,600 mile range
Armament: 1 x 6-pdr.; 2 x 20mm/80; 2 x depth charge tracks
Design & Service:
A steel-hulled trawler formerly named Weymouth. 1942-1944 assigned to CINCLANT-stationed at Boston, MA and used on the Greenland Patrol. On 12 August 1942 she freed the stranded USA Armstrong. She was decommissioned on 10 March 1944.
Sources:
Ship’s History File, CG Historian’s Office Archive Robert Scheina. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft of World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1983.