For other ships with the same name, see USCGC Acushnet.
Acushnet at Norfolk Navy Yard, 8 September 1941.
History
United States Revenue Cutter Service
Name
USRC Acushnet
Namesake
Acushnet, Massachusetts
Builder
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia.
Launched
16 May 1908
Sponsored by
Miss Alayce Duff
Reclassified
USCGC Acushnet, 28 January 1915
Fate
Transferred to U.S. Navy, spring 1917
United States Navy
Name
USS Acushnet
Acquired
spring 1917
Fate
Returned to U.S. Coast Guard, 22 September 1919
United States Coast Guard
Name
USCGC Acushnet
Acquired
22 September 1919
Fate
Transferred to Navy, 30 May 1936
United States Navy
Name
USS Acushnet (AT-63)
Acquired
30 May 1936
Commissioned
1 September 1936
Reclassified
Fleet Tug Old (ATO-63) 17 July 1944
Decommissioned
14 December 1945
Stricken
8 January 1946
Fate
Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 12 December 1946
General characteristics
Displacement
860 tons
Length
152 ft (46 m)
Beam
29 ft (8.8 m)
Draft
18 ft 9 in (5.72 m)
Propulsion
steam
Speed
12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Complement
38
Armament
two 1-pounders
Acushnet – a steel-hulled revenue cutter – was launched on 16 May 1908 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.; sponsored by Miss Alayce Duff; and commissioned at Baltimore on 6 November 1908. She saw service as a United States Revenue Cutter Service cutter, a U.S. Navy fleet tug, and as a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. She was taken out of service 8 January 1946.
Acushnet – a steel-hulled revenue cutter – was launched on 16 May 1908 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.; sponsored...
name USCGC Acushnet; USCGC Acushnet (1908), a former Revenue Cutter, in service from 1915 to 1917 and again from 1919 to 1936 USCGC Acushnet (WMEC-167)...
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uses, and USS Shackle remained in service as the 213' United States Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Acushnet until March 2011. USS Diver (ARS-5) USS Escape (ARS-6)...
transferred to the United States Coast Guard as the USCGC Acushnet. On 23 February 2007 Acushnet was designated as "Queen of the Fleet" being the oldest...
USCGC Acushnet, and 230-foot (70 m) USCGC Storis, and 205-foot (62 m) USCGC Tamaroa which began as the United States Navy Cherokee-class fleet tug USS Zuni...
public auction on 8 September 1865 to M. M. Comstock. Redocumented as Acushnet on 27 December 1865, she operated in merchant service until 1910. American...
sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a merchant ship and then on the whaler Acushnet, but he jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands. Typee, his first book, and...
the loss of 24 of the 133 people aboard. Survivors were rescued by USSAcushnet, USS Roper (both United States Navy) and USCGC CG-455 ( United States...
After the war, she was briefly commissioned into the United States Navy as USS Imperator (ID-4080) and employed as a transport, returning American troops...
USS Leonard Wood (APA-12) was built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation and launched 17 September 1921 at Sparrows Point, Maryland as Nutmeg State,...
Guard Cutter Acushnet were dispatched to assist submarine O-10 that had grounded off Montauk Point in Block Island Sound. Lykens and Acushnet were delayed...
aboard the whaler Acushnet. On October 30, 1841, the ship sighted Albemarle on the Galápagos Islands. Around October 31, the Acushnet spoke with the Phenix...
time he spent on the island after deserting the American whaling ship Acushnet in 1842. In his science fiction novel Paris in the Twentieth Century, written...
Southern Drill Grounds off the Virginia Capes, firing at a target towed by Acushnet on 26 September before firing antiaircraft battery practice on 28 September...
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United States Navy
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