USCGC Firebush (WLB-393)

The USCGC Firebush (WLB-393) was a belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 3 February 1944 and commissioned on 20 July 1944. She was eventually transferred to the Nigerian Navy in June 2003.

Career
The Firebush was fire assigned to the 3rd Coast Guard District and homeported in St. George, Staten Island where she was used for ATON duties during the end of World War II. In June 1979, she was transferred to Kodiak, Alaska to assist with ATON in Alaskan waters. During her time there, she tended 140 aids to navigation including 83 buoys. In May 2003 the Firebush was decommissioned and turned over to the Nigerian Navy.