Tioga, 1916
Built: Solomons Island, MD
Cost: Unknown
Machinery: Compound-expansion steam
Length: 81' 10"
Beam: 20'
Draft: 8' 9"
Displacement: 131 tons
Launched: 4 May 1916
Completed: 17 October 1916
Acquired : Unknown
Decommissioned: 15 March 1930
Disposition: Sold, 26 April 1930
Complement: Unknown
Armament: Unknown
Cutter History:
A wooden-hulled harbor cutter, Tioga was used as a patrol and anchorage vessel in Baltimore, MD from 1917 to 1922. The cutter was then transferred to Norfolk, VA in 1923. After the vessel was sold it was renamed Absley.
Sources:
Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
U.S. Coast Guard. Record of Movements: Vessels of the United States Coast Guard: 1790 - December 31, 1933. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934; 1989 (reprint).