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USS Coos Bay (AVP-25)
USCGC Coos Bay (WAVP-376 (WHEC-376)

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal

USS Coos Bay (AVP-25) was transferred to the US Coast Guard and commissioned USCGC Coos Bay (WAVP-376)
Barnegat Class Small Seaplane Tender:
  • Laid down, 15 August 1941, at Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, WA.
  • Launched, 15 May 1942
  • Commissioned USS Coos Bay (AVP-25), 16 May 1943, CDR. W. Miller in command
  • Decommissioned, 30 April 1946, at Orange, TX.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange
  • Loaned to the US Coast Guard, 5 January 1949
  • Commissioned USCGC Coos Bay (WAVP-376), 4 May 1949
  • Coos Bay wa assigned to Portland ME. Coast Guard Base for her entire Coast Guard career
  • Redesignated High Endurance Cutter (WHEC-376), date unknown.
  • Decommissioned, 1 September 1966, at Boston Coast Guard Base, MA.
  • Returned to the US Navy, 2 December 1967
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, towed to sea from Curtis Bay and sunk as a bombing target, 9 January 1968
  • Coos Bay received two battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,766 t.(lt) 2,750 t.(fl)
    Length 311' 8"
    Beam 41' 1"
    Draft 13' 6"
    Speed 18.6 kts.
    Complement
    US Coast Guard 10 officers, 3 warrants, 138 men
    Armament
    US Navy
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    one quad 40mm AA gun mount
    two dual 40mm AA gun mounts
    four dual 20mm AA gun mounts
    US Coast Guard
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    Propulsion Fairbanks-Morse, direct reversing, two shafts, 6,000hp
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    USS Coos Bay (AVP-25)
    Coos Bay 105k Coos Bay (AVP-25) off Houghton, WA. 15 May 1943, the day of her first commissioning. She was completed with a main battery of four 5"/38 guns.
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-47253, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Coos Bay 105k Coos Bay (AVP-25) off Houghton, WA., 15 May 1943.
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-47254, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Coos Bay 105k Coos Bay (AVP-25) off Houghton, WA., 15 May 1943.
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-47257, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Tangier 96k Coos Bay (AVP-25) (left), and Tangier (AV-8) seen from Chandeleur (AV-10) as Tangier steams out of Ominato, Japan, 16 October 1945.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-266022, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    USCGC Coos Bay (WAVP-376) (WHEC-376)
    Coos Bay 58k ex Coos Bay (AVP-25) in US Coast Guard service as USCGC Coos Bay (WAVP-376) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Coast Guard photo.    		 US Coast Guard Historian's Office
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office - Coos Bay, 1949 WAVP / WHEC-376
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