Caddo, 1943
WYP-174
ex-Tanginak; ex-Tyee Junior
Builder: Moran Company, Seattle, Washington
Length: 103'
Beam: 17' 7"
Draft: 11' 8"
Displacement: 372 tons
Cost: $35,000 (chartered)
Launched: 1907
Commissioned: 9 March 1943 (USCG)
Decommissioned: 16 March 1944
Disposition: Returned to owners
Machinery: Steam engine; 350 SHP; single propeller
Performance:
Maximum Speed: N/A
Economic/Cruising Speed: N/A
Complement: 10
Electronics: None
Armament: 1 x 20mm/80; 2 x small depth charge tracks
Cutter History:
The Caddo, a former whaler launched originally in 1907, was chartered by the Coast Guard for patrol duties in Alaskan waters. She was commissioned on 9 March 1943 and was assigned to the 13th Naval District and was based out of Ketchikan, where she carried out anti-submarine patrol and escort of convoy duties.
She was decommissioned on 16 March 1944 and was returned to her owners.
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.
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).