Arvek, 1942 (WYP-165); ex-Triton
Builder: Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River, Quincy, MA
Commissioned:
Commercial: 1936; USCG: 16 July 1942
Decommissioned: 29 July 1944
Cost: Acquisition War Shipping Administration loan; conversion $75,000
Displacement (tons)- 336 fl (1942) Tonnage- 172 gross (1941); 84 net (1941)
Length- 110' 3" oa' 102' 5" bp
Beam- 22' 1" max
Draft- 10' 6" max (1942)
Machinery: Main Engines- 1 diesel; BHP- 350; Propellers- Single 1
Maximum Speed: 9 knots
Economic Speed: 9 knots; 2,800 mile range
Electronics: None
Armament: 1 x 3"/23; 2 x 20mm/80; 2 short depth charge tracks (1942) 4 x 20mm/80; 2 short depth charge tracks (1944)
Design & Service:
The former trawler Triton. She was commissioned on 16 July 1942, assigned to CINCLANT, and was stationed at Boston, MA. She was pressed into service on the Greenland Patrol.
She was decommissioned on 29 July 1944.
Sources:
Ship’s History File, CG Historian’s Office Archive.
Robert Scheina. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft of World War II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1983. 3