Bothwell, 1919
ex-Eagle 21
Builder: Ford Motor Co., Detroit, MI
Commissioned:
USN: 31 July 1919
USCG: 31 December 1919
Decommissioned: 3 December 1921
Disposition: Sold 9 April 1923
Hull:
Displacement (tons)- 615 tons
Length- 200' 9" oa
Beam- 33' 1"
Draft- 8' 6"
Machinery
Main Engines- Geared turbine
SHP- 2,500
Armament- 2-4"/50, 1-3"/50 (USN)
Complement- 5 officers, 56 men (USN)
Design & Service:
These mass-produced anti-submarine vessels were designed for quick construction. The first of 100 ordered was begun in May 1918. Only 80 were completed, with many assuming minor roles after the Armistice. Because they were of flat steel plate hull construction, their sea-keeping characteristics were not optimal. When transferred to the USCG these vessels were named for men lost on USCGC Tampa in World War I.
Commissioned 31 December 1919, she was sent to the West Coast and made one Bering Sea cruise.
Sources:
Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis, MD: 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).