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USCGC Spar (WLB-206) is a United States Coast Guard Juniper-class seagoing buoy tender home-ported in Duluth, Minnesota The ship maintains aids to navigation in the Twin Ports and Great Lakes. Construction
The SS St. Marys Challenger is a freight-carrying vessel operating on the North American Great Lakes built in 1906. Originally an ore boat, she spent most of her career as a cement carrier when much larger ore boats became common.
65 87' Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat (WPB) 66 83' patrol craft - 230 hulls, not named. 67 82' Point-class patrol boat (WPB) ... USCGC Spar (WLB-206)
Challenger: 1853 United States (Boston, MA) Abandoned in 1875 206 ft (63 m) Dreadnought [17] [18] 1853 United States (Newburyport, MA) Lost in 1869 [19] 212 ft (65 m) Dreadnought was a three-masted medium clipper ship built in 1853 by Currier & Townsend at Newburyport, MA. She was originally intended for the "Racehorse Line" of California ...
Gulf Oil's 1936 Gulf Dawn was requisitioned in April 1942, renamed Big Horn and nominally designated AO-45; in fact she was modified into a Q-ship, a U-boat decoy equipped with concealed guns. She was transferred in 1944 to the Coast Guard as USCGC Big Horn (WAO-124), then back to the Navy as a transport tanker in 1945.
The Type 206 is a class of diesel-electric submarines developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW). Its design is based on the preceding Type 205 submarine class. These small and agile submarines were built during the Cold War to operate in the shallow Baltic Sea and attack Warsaw Pact shipping in the event of military confrontation.
The Turya class is a derivative of the Shershen-class torpedo boat. A hydroplane was added forward to increase speed. A hydroplane was added forward to increase speed. These boats can operate at 40 knots at sea state 4 and 35 knots at sea state 5.
Her duties in the Twin Ports of Duluth/Superior were taken over by her sister tender USCGC Spar (WLB-206). Alder is designed as a multi-mission vessel, with its missions being Aids to Navigation, Icebreaking, Search and Rescue, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Marine Environmental Protection.