Arluk, 1942 (WYP-167); ex-Atlantic
Builder: Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River, Quincy, MA
Commissioned: Commercial: 1934; USCG: 16 July 1942
Decommissioned: 6 July 1944
Disposition: returned to owner, 6 July 1944
Cost: Acquisition War Shipping Administration loan; conversion $75,000
Hull:
Displacement (tons)- 370 fl (1942)
Tonnage- 163 gross (1941); 84 net (1941)
Length- 110' 3" oa' 102' 5" bp
Beam- 22' 1" max
Draft- 10' ^" max (1942)
Machinery: Main Engines- 1 diesel; BHP- 250; Propellers- Single
Maximum Speed: 9 knots
Economic Speed: 8 knots; 4,530 mile range
Electronics: None
Armament: 1 x 3"/23; 2 x 20mm/80; 2 short depth charge tracks
Design & Service:
The former trawler Atlantic. She was commissioned on 16 July 1942, assigned to CINCLANT, and was stationed at Boston, MA. She was pressed into service on the Greenland Patrol.
She was decommissioned on 6 July 1944 and was returned to her owner.
Note: sometimes referenced as the "Arluck".
Sources:
Ship's History File, CG Historian’s Office Archive. U
Robert Scheina. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft of World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1983.