Nogak, 1942 (WYP-71)

March 2, 2021
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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.