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USCGC Pamlico (WPR 57)
Call sign: Nan - Roger - Fox - Peter
ex-USCGC Pamlico (CG 15)
Call sign (Early 1919): George - Vice - Have - Jig
Call sign (Late 1919): Nan - Rush - Rush
ex-USRC Pamlico
Pamlico served the U.S. Revenue Service, the Navy and Coast Guard
Revenue Cutter:
Built in 1907 by Pusey and Jones, Wilmington, DE
Launched 8 March 1907
Commissioned USRC Pamlico 26 July 1907
Designated CG-15 in 1915
Acquired by the Navy 6 April 1917
Returned to the Treasury Department 28 August 1919
Reclassified as a River Gunboat, WPR-57 in 1942
Decommissioned 6 September 1946
Sold 7 July 1947
Sold to the Norris Grain Co. of New York and renamed C. W. Curlett
Sold in 1958 to the Ailsworth Transport Co. of Reedsville, VA and renamed William Dea
Fate unknown.
Specifications:
Displacement 455 t.
1919 - 451 t.
Length 158'
Beam 30'
Draft 5' 8"
1919 - 10'
Speed 11.2 kts.
Complement 42
1919 - 44
Armament: Two 6-pounders
Propulsion: One Babcock and Wilcox main boiler, two 325hp vertical triple expansion steam engines, two shafts
Converted to diesel in 1947.
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103k
Pre-World War I photo
U.S. Coast Guard
110k
c. 1927
Original photo: Robert HurstReplacement photo: U.S. Coast Guard
186k
26 May 1944 Pamlico serves as a test-bed for the floating drydock YFD-60. Other than her war-time gray paint, her appearance had changed little over the years U.S. Coast Guard photo 6-25