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  2. 83-foot patrol boat - Wikipedia

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    The United States Coast Guard wooden-hulled 83-foot patrol boats (also called cutters) were all built by Wheeler Shipyard in Brooklyn, New York during World War II.The first 136 cutters were fitted with a tapered-roof Everdur silicon bronze wheelhouse but due to a growing scarcity of that metal during the war, the later units were fitted with a flat-roofed plywood wheelhouse. [4]

  3. Treasury-class cutter - Wikipedia

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    The Treasury-class cutter was a group of seven high endurance cutters launched by the United States Coast Guard between 1936 and 1937. The class were called the "Treasury class" because they were each named for former Secretaries of the Treasury. These ships were also collectively known as the "327's" as they were all 327 feet (100 m) in length ...

  4. USCGC Campbell (WPG-32) - Wikipedia

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    USCGC Campbell (WPG-32) was a 327-foot (100 m) Secretary-class (also known as Treasury-class) United States Coast Guard ship built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1935-1936 and commissioned in 1936. Seven similar "combat cutters" were built and named for secretaries of the United States Treasury. Campbell was named for George Washington Campbell.

  5. USCGC Northland (WPG-49) - Wikipedia

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    USCGC Northland (WPG-49) was a United States Coast Guard cruising class of gunboat especially designed for Arctic operations in commission from 1927 to 1938 and from 1939 to 1946. She served during World War II. She was the last cruising cutter built for the Coast Guard equipped with a sailing rig. [4]

  6. List of World War II vessel types of the United States

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    Tassie III (S-77) of the Small Ships Section, United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOSSWPA) at a hideout at Mubo Salamaua Area, Morobe, New Guinea 1943. As there was a need for a fleet of shallow-draft vessels that could navigate among coral reefs, use primitive landing places far up the coast of New Guinea, and ...

  7. Category : World War II naval ships of the United States

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    World War II aircraft carriers of the United States (2 C, 55 P) World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States (2 C, 1,125 P) World War II auxiliary ships of the United States (15 C, 1,106 P)

  8. USCGC Icarus - Wikipedia

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    USCGC Icarus (WPC-110) was a steel-hulled, diesel-powered Thetis-class patrol boat [2] of the United States Coast Guard that patrolled the United States East Coast during World War II. In 1942, Icarus sank the German submarine U-352 off the coast of North Carolina and took its survivors into custody as prisoners of war.

  9. Tacoma-class frigate - Wikipedia

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    Twenty-one ships were transferred to the British Royal Navy, in which they were known as Colony-class frigates, and twenty-eight ships were transferred under Lend-Lease to the Soviet Navy, where they were designated as storozhevoi korabl ("escort ships"), during World War II. All Tacoma-class ships in US service during World War II were manned ...