USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Willoughby and USCGC Gresham.
The second USS Willoughby (AGP-9) was a motor torpedo boat tender that served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946, seeing service in the later stages of World War II. Transferred to the United States Coast Guard in 1946, she was in commission as the cutter USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387), later WHEC-387 and WAGW-387, from 1947 to 1969 and from 1970 to 1973, seeing service in the Vietnam War during her Coast Guard career.
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USS Willoughby (AGP-9) on 24 June 1944, six days after commissioning | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Willoughby (AVP-57) |
Namesake | Willoughby Bay, an estuary of Hampton Roads in Virginia |
Builder | Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, Washington |
Laid down | 15 March 1943 |
Launched | 21 August 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. D. R. Lee |
Reclassified | Motor torpedo boat tender, AGP-9, on 11 May 1943 |
Commissioned | 18 June 1944 |
Decommissioned | 26 June 1946 |
Honors and awards | Three battle stars for her World War II service |
Fate | Transferred to United States Coast Guard 27 May 1946 |
Stricken | 19 July 1946 |
United States | |
Name | USCGC Gresham (WAVP-387) |
Namesake | Walter Q. Gresham (1832–1895), United States Secretary of State (1893-1895) |
Acquired | 26 June 1946 |
Commissioned | 1 December 1947 |
Reclassified | High endurance cutter (WHEC-387) 1 May 1966 |
Decommissioned | 1969 |
Recommissioned | January 1970 |
Reclassified | Meteorological cutter (WAGW-387) 27 February 1970 |
Decommissioned | 25 April 1973 |
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General characteristics (seaplane tender) | |
Class and type | Barnegat-class seaplane tender, converted during construction into a motor torpedo boat tender |
Displacement | |
Length | 310 ft 9 in (94.72 m) |
Beam | 41 ft 1 in (12.52 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
Installed power | 6,000 horsepower (4.48 megawatts) |
Propulsion | Diesel engine, two shafts |
Speed | 18.2 knots |
Complement | 246 |
Sensors and processing systems | Radar; sonar |
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General characteristics (Coast Guard cutter) | |
Class and type | Casco-class cutter |
Displacement | 2,530.7 tons (full load) |
Length | 309 ft 9.5 in (94.425 m) overall; 298 ft 9.375 in (91.06853 m) between perpendiculars |
Beam | 41 ft 2.125 in (12.55078 m) maximum |
Draft | 13 ft 0.5 in (3.975 m) aft (full load) |
Installed power | 6,080 bhp (4,530 kW) |
Propulsion | Fairbanks-Morse direct-reversing diesel engines, two shafts; 166,429 US gallons (630,000 L) of fuel |
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Range | 20,500 nautical miles (38,000 km) at 11.0 knots (20.4 km/h)s |
Complement | 151 (10 officers, 3 warrant officers, 138 enlisted personnel) |
Sensors and processing systems | |
Armament | In 1965: one single 5-inch (127 mm) 38-caliber Mark 30 Mod 65, 1 x Mark 52-2 Mod 3 director, 1 x Mark 26-4 fire-control radar, 1 x Mark 10-1 antisubmarine projector, 2 x Mark 32 Mod 2 torpedo tubes |
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