Global InformationUSCGC Tupelo information
 Courageous (far right) docked in Seattle, November 2015
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| History | |
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  United States | |
| Name | USCGC Tupelo (WAGL/WLB-303) |
| Namesake | Tupelo |
| Builder | Zenith Dredge Company, Duluth, Minnesota |
| Cost | $948,887.00 (US Dollars) |
| Laid down | 15 August 1942 |
| Launched | 28 November 1942 |
| Commissioned | 30 August 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 30 September 1975 |
| Refit | Todd Shipyards, Seattle, Washington (beginning in October 1971) |
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| Identification | Callsign: NPRU |
| Fate | Sold, 13 September 1977 |
| United States | |
| Name | Courageous |
| Owner | Akulurak, LLC[1] |
| Acquired | 1977 |
| Homeport | Seattle, Washington |
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| Status | In service |
| Notes | Converted into fishing vessel between 1977-1979[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Cactus or A class large buoy tender. |
| Type | Coast Guard, Auxiliary, General, buoy tender, Large WAGL (1942). Coast Guard, Large, Buoy tender WLB (1965). |
| Displacement | 1000 tons. |
| Length | 180 feet. |
| Beam | 37 feet. |
| Draft | 12 feet, 6 inches. |
| Ice class | Notched forefoot, ice belt at water line and reinforced bow. |
| Installed power | 1 screw, 1000 SHP. |
| Propulsion | 1 electric motor connected to 2 Westinghouse generators, driven by 2 Cooper-Bessemer type GND-8, 8 cylinder, 4 cycle diesels. |
| Speed | Maximum: 11.5 knots. Economic: 10 knots (1973). |
| Range | Maximum: 3940 miles. Economic: 6259 miles (1973). |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 2 to 4 lifeboats, 1 of which was an LCVP. |
| Capacity | Fuel: 29,000 US gallons diesel. |
| Complement | 50. |
| Sensors and processing systems | Radar: SL. Sonar: WEA-2. |
| Armament | 1 3"/50 caliber gun (single mount), 2 20 mm Oerlikon/80 (single mount); 2 depth charge tracks; 2 Mousetraps; 4 Y-guns (1942). Post WW2: M2 Browning machine guns, M60 Machine guns, and small arms, were retained for law enforcement purposes. |
| Notes | Outfitted with a 20 ton electric boom. |
USCGC Tupelo WAGL/WLB-303, was a Cactus (A) Class 180-foot buoy tender vessel built by Zenith Dredge Company of Duluth, Minnesota. Her keel was laid 15 August 1942, launched 28 November 1942 and commissioned on 30 August 1943. She was built as a WAGL and redesignated a WLB in 1965.
- ^ a b "COURAGEOUS". ShipSpotting. Retrieved 13 July 2017.