Nogak, 1942
WYP-71 (ex-St. George)
Builder: Snow Shipyards, Inc., Rockland, ME
Commissioned:
Commercial: 1940
USCG: 7 July 1942
Decommissioned: 24 July 1944
Disposition: returned to War Shipping Administration on 24 July 1944
Cost: Acquisition War Shipping Administration loan; conversion $75,000
Hull:
Displacement (tons)- 300 fl (1942)
Tonnage- 176 gross (1941); 99 net (1941)
Length- 111' oa; 105' 5" bp
Beam- 23' 6" max
Draft- 11' 8" (max)
Machinery
Main Engines- 1 Fairbanks Morse, 5-cylinder diesel
BHP- 500
Propellers- Single
Armament- 1-6-pdr.; 2-20mm/80; 2 short track depth charge racks
Design & Service:
A former wooden-hulled trawler.
1942-1944 assigned to CINCLANT-stationed at Boston, MA; operated off Greenland on the Greenland Patrol.
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.