Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944
WAGL
ex-Huck Finn
Builder: Midland Barge Company, Midland, Pennsylvania
Length: 160'
Beam: 40'
Draft: 8'
Displacement: 495 tons
Cost: N/A
Commissioned: 1944
Decommissioned: 3 October 1944
Disposition: Returned to owners
Machinery: 2 8-cylinder diesel engines
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Armament: None
Electronics: None
History:
The Franklin D. Roosevelt was a powered barge, the ex-Huck Finn, that entered commercial service in 1933. She was designed as a towboat and was chartered by the Coast Guard in 1944 from the Inland Waterways Corporation for use as an ice-breaker on the Great Lakes. She was returned to her owners on 3 October 1944.
Sources:
Cutter History File. USCG Historian's Office, USCG HQ, Washington, D.C.
Robert Scheina. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft of World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982.