Arrow, 1919 (AB-2)

April 21, 2020
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Arrow, 1919 (AB-2)


Built: Heerreshoff, Bristol, RI

Cost: Unknown

Machinery: 2 Sterling 8-cylinder gasoline engines, 200 hp each

Top Speed: 21 knots

Length: 62' 4"

Beam: 10' 11"

Draft: 3'

Displacement: Unknown

Launched: Unknown

Acquired : 22 November 1919

Commissioned: 21 August 1921

Decommissioned: Unknown

Disposition: Transferred to US Shipping Board on 18 March 1925

Complement: Unknown

Armament: 1 1-pdr.


History:

The former USN Apache (SP-729). She was taken over at Key West, FL, and renamed Arrow 16 December 1919.

She was in Tampa, FL in August 1931 and re-designatrd AB-2 on 6 November 1923.


Sources:

Cutter History Files, U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office.

Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.

U.S. Coast Guard. U.S. Coast Guard Record of Movements: 1790-1933. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1989, reprint.