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- Code Number:
- MYCD01_006
- Title:
- USCGC Sundew, (WLB-404), Buoy Tender, Great Lakes, Lake Superior, Duluth, Minnesota, USCG, Harbor, Dock
- Builder: Marine Iron & Shipbuilding Corporation, Duluth, MN
Keel Laid: 29 November 1943
Launched: 8 February 1944
Commissioned: 24 August 1944
Decommissioned: May 2004
Cost: $861,589
Length: 180'
Beam: 37'
Draft: 12' maximum (1945)
Displacement: 935 tons (1945)
Propulsion: 1 electric motor connected to 2 Westinghouse generators driven by 2 Cooper-Bessemer diesels; 1,200 SHP; single propeller.
Performance:
Ma: 13 knots, 8,000 mile range (1945)
Cruising: 12.0 knots, 12,000 mile range
Economic: 8.3 knots, 17,000 mile range
Fluid Capacities (in gallons):
Diesel Oil: 28,600 gallons
Potable Water: 13,155
Deck Gear: 20-ton boom w/ electric hoist
Anchors: 2 Navy Stockless, 2,200 lbs each, 810-foot chain
Armament: 1 3"/50; 4 20mm/80 (single barrel); 2 depth charge stern tracks; 2 Mousetraps (1945)
Small Boats: 26' Motor Cargo Boat, capable of carrying 2,000 lbs of cargo, powered by 92-hp engine, top speed of 14 knots; Rigid Hull Inflatable, twin 65-jp Evinrude outboards, top speed in ecess of 25 knots (2000)
Complement: 80 (1945)
Electronics:
Radar: SL-1
Sonar: QBE-3 - Keywords:
- Image by:
- Wernher Krutein
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