USCGC Winnisimmet (WYT-84)

History
United States
Builder: Spedden Company, Baltimore, Maryland
Cost: $50,000
Launched: 11 October 1902
Commissioned: 30 July 1903
Decommissioned: October 1945
Fate: Sold 22 July 1946
Notes: Known as USRC Winnisimmet before 1915
General characteristics
Class & type: Winnisimmet-class
Type: harbor tug
Displacement: 182 tons
Length: 96' 6"
Beam: 20" 6"
Draft: 9'
Installed power: Babcock & Wilcox water boiler, steam engine, 500 SHP
Propulsion: 1 screw
Speed: 12 knots
Range: 680 miles
Complement: 11
Armament: none

USCGC Winnisimmet was one of two Winnisimmet-class harbor tugs constructed for the Revenue Cutter Service in 1903 and stationed at Boston, Massachusetts. The Navy assumed control of her from 6 April 1917 to 28 August 1919 during World War I. In September 1919 she was transferred from Boston to Baltimore, Maryland, where she remained until 1932. She was then assigned to Norfolk, Virginia where she remained in service until being decommissioned in October 1945. Before the U.S. Coast Guard was formed in 1915, she was known as the USRC Winnisimmet. The other cutter in the Winnisimmet-class was the USRC Wissahickon.

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