USCGC Mallow (WLB-396)

The USCGC Mallow (WLB-396) was a belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 9 December 1943 and commissioned on 6 June 1944.

Career
Upon being commissioned in June of 1944, the Mallow was assigned to the 12th Coast Guard District and homeported in San Francisco where she was used for ATON in the Pacific until the end of World War II. After the war, starting in September 1946, she was stationed in Astoria, Oregon. In February of 1958 the Mallow assisted USS Yuma (AT-94) with towing the USS Tinian (CVE-123) 6 miles south of Swiftsure Bank. In February of 1989 she assisted with recovering debris from the United Airlines Flight 811 crash off Hawaii.