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USCGC Hickory (WLI 219)
ex-USCGC Hickory (WAGL 219)



Call sign:
Nan - Roger - William - Jig

ex-USLHT Hickory

Hickory served both the U.S. Light House Service and Coast Guard

Coast Guard Cutter:

  • The first Hickory was built in 1933 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
  • Commissioned USLHT Hickory in March 1933
  • Designated USCGC Hickory (WAGL 219) in 1939
  • Reclassified as an Inland Buoy Tender WLI-219
  • Decommissioned 10 January 1967
  • Sold 28 April 1969
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 438 t.
  • Length 131' 4"
  • Beam 24' 6"
  • Draft 9' 5"
  • Complement 41 (1945)
    23 (1962)
  • Speed 10.4 kts.
  • Armament: Two 20mm mounts and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: One Babcock and Wilcox watertube boiler, one 500shp triple expansion steam engine, one shaft.
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    Hickory 75k WLI-219
    U.S. Coast Guard photo    		 Kenrick A. Claflin & Son website
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