USS Alatok, 1942 (WYP-172), Alatok; ex-Hekla
Builder: Cochrane and Sons, Ltd., Sciby, England
Commissioned: Commercial: 1922; USCG: 22 August 1942
Decommissioned: 27 December 1943
Disposition: returned to War Shipping Administration on 27 December 1943; returned to owner 13 Mar 1944
Cost:
Acquisition: $80,000
Conversion: $ 92,000
Displacement (tons)- 775 fl (1942)
Tonnage- 387 gross (1942)
Length- 150' 3" oa
Beam- 25' mb
Draft- 13' 5" max (1942) 1
Machinery: Main Engines- 1 triple-expansion steam; BHP- 500; single propeller
Maximum Speed: 9 knots
Economic Speed: 9 knots; 4,700 mile range
Electronics: None
Armament: 1 x 3"/50 gun; 2 x 20 mm/80 guns; 2 short depth charge tracks (1943)
Design & Service:
The former steel-hulled trawler Hecla was taken into service 1942. She was assigned to CINCLANT and was stationed at Boston, MA and used on the Greenland Patrol. She was decommissioned 27 December 1943 and returned to her owner on 13 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.