Amarok, 1942 (WYP-166); ex-Lark; ex-Greyhound One
Builder: Russell Erie Basin Shipyard, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
Commissioned:
Commercial: 1938; USCG: 31 July 1942
Decommissioned: 5 February 1944
Disposition: ?
Cost: Acquisition: $3,539 Conversion: $75,000
Hull: Steel hulled trawler
Displacement (tons)- 450 fl (1942) Tonnage- 237 gross (1941); 123 net (1941)
Length- 128' oa; 119' 3" bp
Beam- 24' 1"
Draft- 12' 7" max (1942)
Machinery:
Main Engines- 1 diesel; BHP- 375; Propellers- Single
Maximum Speed: 10 knots
Economic Speed: 9 knots; 4,600 mile range
Electronics: None
Armament: 1 x 3"/23; 2 x 20mm/80; 2 short depth charge tracks
Design & Service:
The former trawler Lark and Greyhound One. She was commissioned on 31 July 1942, assigned to CINCLANT, stationed at Boston, MA and was pressed into service on the Greenland Patrol.
She was decommissioned on 5 February 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.