| USCGC Mallow.jpg USCGC Mallow underway in Honolulu Harbor | |
| Career (United States) |  |
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| Name: | USCGC Mallow (WLB-396) |
| Namesake: | Mallow plant |
| Builder: | Zenith Dredge Corporation |
| Laid down: | 10 October 1943 |
| Launched: | 9 December 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 6 June 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 May 1997 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Iris-class buoy tender |
| Displacement: | 935 long tons (950 t) |
| Length: | 180 ft (55 m) |
| Beam: | 47 ft 1 in (14.35 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × electric motor connected to 2 Westinghouse generators driven by 2 Cooper Bessemer-type GND-8, 4-cycle diesels; single screw |
| Speed: |
8.3 kn (15.4 km/h; 9.6 mph) cruising 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) maximum |
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The USCGC Mallow (WLB-396) was a Iris-class buoy tender belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 9 December 1943 and commissioned on 6 June 1944.[1]
Career
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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.[1] After the war, starting in September 1946, she was stationed in Astoria, Oregon. In February of 1958 the Mallow assisted Yuma with towing the Tinian 6 miles south of Swiftsure Bank. In February of 1989 she assisted with recovering debris from the United Airlines Flight 811 crash off Hawaii.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "USCG Mallow". US Coast Guard. http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/mallow1944.asp. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
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