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.