Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corporation, New York, New York
Commissioned
3 January 1942
Renamed
USS Muskeget (AG-48), 30 May 1942
Namesake
Muskeget Island, off Massachusetts
Reclassified
From "miscellaneous district auxiliary" (YAG) to "miscellaneous auxiliary" (AG), 30 May 1942
Decommissioned
30 June 1942
Stricken
26 October 1943
Fate
Loaned to U.S. Coast Guard 30 June 1942
United States Coast Guard
Name
USCGC Muskeget (WAG-48)
Namesake
Previous name retained
Acquired
30 June 1942
Commissioned
1 July 1942
Fate
Sunk 9 September 1942
General characteristics
Type
Patrol vessel and weather ship
Tonnage
370 gross register tons
Displacement
1,827 tons
Length
233 ft 6 in (71.2 m) overall
Beam
40 ft 2 in (12.2 m)
Draft
24 ft 3 in (7.4 m)
Propulsion
one Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Company triple-expansion steam engine; two; Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation single-ended Scotch boilers, 190 psi; one screw; 1,300 shaft horsepower (69 kw)
Speed
11 knots
Complement
116 officers and enlisted
Sensors and processing systems
QCL-8 sonar; no radar
Armament
one single 4"/50 gun mount; one single 3"/50 gun mount; four single 20mm AA gun mounts; two depth charge tracks; four Y-guns; two Mousetraps
USS YAG-9
USS Muskeget (AG-48) – originally USS YAG-9 – was a former commercial cargo ship acquired by the United States Navy in 1941 for use during World War II. She was outfitted with a variety of guns, depth charge tracks, Y-guns, and Mousetrap and placed in service as a patrol vessel. Transferred to the United States Coast Guard for use as a weather ship in the North Atlantic Ocean and renamed USCGC Muskeget (WAG-48), she disappeared in September 1942 with the loss of all on board, the only U.S. weather ship lost during World War II. It was later determined that she had been sunk by a German submarine.
USSMuskeget (AG-48) – originally USS YAG-9 – was a former commercial cargo ship acquired by the United States Navy in 1941 for use during World War II...
Muskeget may refer to: Muskeget Island, an island off the coast of Massachusetts in the United States USSMuskeget, a United States Navy patrol vessel...
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U-609 sinks Bronxville and Capira from convoy SC 97. September 9, 1942 USSMuskeget, a Coast Guard weather ship, is torpedoed near Weather Station #2, Lat...
United States Army. On 9 September 1942 German submarine U-755 sank USSMuskeget, killing 116 of her crew, one Public Health Service physician, and four...
units. USS Lexington on fire during the Battle of the Coral Sea, 1942 Light cruiser USS Birmingham coming alongside burning aircraft carrier USS Princeton...
25 August 1942 U-438 Trolla Norway 1,598 Sunk 9 September 1942 U-755 USSMuskeget United States Navy 1,827 Sunk 20 September 1942 U-596 Empire Hartebeeste...
USS West Gambo (ID-3220) was a steel-hulled, single-screw cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919. She later saw commercial...
until 4 September 1942, when she was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine USS Growler north-east of Formosa (Taiwan) at 25°45′N 122°42′E / 25.750°N 122...
SS Edwin Joseph O'Hara, and SS Richard Moczkowski, and the destroyer escort USS Kenneth M. Willett were named in honor of crew members of Stephen Hopkins...
with the U.S. Navy in the immediate postwar period as the auxiliary ship USS West Eldara (ID-3704), completing two relief missions to Europe before decommissioning...
a hurricane in Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, 14 September 1944. USCGC Muskeget (WAG-48) sank after being torpedoed by German submarine U-755 in the North...
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