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USCGC White Pine (WLM-547)
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 USCGC White Pine (WAGL-547) (1948 - 1960)
 USS YF-448 (1944 - 1946)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Oscar - Delta - Echo
 NODE
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal

White Pine was sold to the Dominican Republic
YF-257 Class Self-propelled Covered Lighter:
  • Built by Erie Concrete & Steel Supply Co., Erie, PA
  • Contracted (NXs 156), date unknown
  • Laid down, 12 June 1943
  • Launched, 28 August 1943
  • Placed in service at New York Navy yard, Brooklyn, NY, as YF-448, 20 May 1944
  • Commissioned USS YF-448, 11 July 1944
  • Allocated to the Fifth Naval District
  • Decommissioned in 1946
  • Transferred to US Coast Guard, 05 December 1947
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Commissioned, as the Coastal Buoy Tender USCGC White Pine (WAGL-547), 3 August 1948
  • Redesignated (WLM-547), mid-1960s
  • Decommissioned and transferred to Dominican Republic, renamed ARD Tortuguero (BA 1), 29 June 1999
  • Renumbered PM 203, 2006
  • Active in service, 2020
    Specifications:
    Displacement 600 tons
    Length 132' 10"
    Beam 30'
    Draft 8' 9" max.
    Speed 10.5 kts.
    Range 2,830 mile range at 7.5 kts. (1948)
    Armament none
    Complement USCG (1948)
    1 Warrant Officer
    20 Enlisted
    Propulsion
    As Built - diesel, twin screws
    1974 - Diesel electric; 2 x direct-reversible 06 Union diesels; 600 BHP; twin propellers; 3 rudders (as launched); 2 x Caterpillar D-353-E diesel engines
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    YF-448
    YF-448
    144344803    		 38k YF-448 launching, 28 August 1943, at Erie Concrete & Steel Supply Co., Erie, PA.
    Photo from Bowling Green University, Historical Collection of the Great Lakes.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    USCGC White Pine (WAGL-547)
    YF-448
    144344801    		 21k USCGC White Pine (WAGL-547) underway off the Coast Guard Yard at Curtis Bay, Baltimore, MD, 09 August 1948, six days after being commissioned into the US Coast Guard. Note the original crane and hoisting mechanism and two additional piles (spuds) that drop into the water's muddy bottom to steady the vessel while working.
    USCG photo and Library of Congress, HAER AL-187-41    		 US Coast Guard Historian's Office
    YF-448
    144344805    		 68k
    YF-448
    144344802    		 38k USCGC White Pine (WAGL-547) moored at Memphis, TN., with a barge attached in July 1961.
    US Coast Guard photo and Library of Congress, Photo No. HAER AL-187-46.    		 US Coast Guard Historian's Office
    and Mike Green
    YF-448
    144344806    		 105k
    YF-448
    144344804    		 92k USCGC White Pine (WLM-547) underway sometime after 1967, when the Coast Guard added the current slash and seal markings.
    Library of Congress photo # HAER AL-187-2    		 Mike Green / Bryan Fisher
    ARD Tortuguero (PM 203)
    YF-448
    144344807    		 446k ARD Tortuguero (PM 203) underway in Dominican waters, 28 November 2010. Photo by "Cheposo," via Wikimedia Commons Dave Wright
    There is no DANFS history for USS YF-448 available at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office - White Pine, 1947 WAGL / WLM-547; YF-448
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    Last Updated 21 March 2021