This article is about the fishery patrol vessel. For United States Navy ships, see USS Scoter.
USFS Scoter
USFS Scoter in 1925
United States
Name
Clatsop
Owner
Bristol Bay Packers
Completed
1920
Identification
WTDF[1]
Fate
Sold to U.S. Bureau of Fisheries April 1922
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries
Name
USFS Scoter
Namesake
Scoter, a stocky seaduck in the genus Melanitta
Cost
US$5,000
Acquired
April 1922
Commissioned
April or May 1922
Fate
Transferred to Fish and Wildlife Service 30 June 1940
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Name
US FWS Scoter
Namesake
Previous name retained
Acquired
30 June 1940
Fate
Wrecked 19 September 1949
Salvaged
Sold 1950
United States
Name
Clatsop
Namesake
Earlier name restored
Owner
Mr. and Mrs. Don Martin
Acquired
1950
Notes
Extant May 1951
General characteristics (as BOF fishery patrol vessel)
Type
Fishery patrol vessel
Tonnage
41 GRT
28 NRT
Length
57 ft (17.4 m) to 65 ft (19.8 m) (sources vary)
Beam
15 ft (4.6 m)
Draft
6.8 ft (2.1 m)
Propulsion
As built: 1 x 50 hp (37 kW) three-cylinder Standard gasoline engine
Winter 1929–1930 or winter 1930–1931 (see text): 1 x 66 hp (49 kW) Washington diesel engine
Speed
1920: 8 miles per hour (13 km/h)
USFS Scoter was an American fishery patrol vessel that operated in the waters of the Territory of Alaska. She was part of the United States Bureau of Fisheries (BOF) fleet from 1922 to 1940. She then served as US FWS Scoter in the fleet of the Fish and Wildlife Service from 1940 to 1950. Before her United States Government service, she was the commercial purse seiner Clatsop. She returned to that name and to private ownership after the conclusion of her U.S. Government career.
^U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, Merchant Vessels of the United States (Including Yachts and Government Vessels), Year Ended June 30, 1933, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1932, pp. 151, 1131.
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