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USCGC Manasquan (WAG-273)
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USS Manasquan (AG-36) (1941 - 1943)
USS Lake Catherine (ID-3568) (1918 - 1919)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Romeo - Mike - India
NRMI
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - World War I Victory Medal (with Transport clasp)
Bottom Row - American Defense Service Medal - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal


  • Built in 1918 as SS Lake Catherine for the United States Shipping Board (USSB) at Toledo Shipbuilding Co., Toledo, OH.
  • Acquired by the US Navy and commissioned USS Lake Catherine (ID-3568), 4 October 1918
  • Decommissioned, struck from the Naval Register, and returned to the United States Shipping Board (USSB), 15 August 1919
  • Name reverted to SS Lake Catherine and placed in commercial service
  • Reacquired by the US Navy, 14 October 1941
  • Renamed Manasquan, 15 October 1941
  • Converted to Miscellaneous Auxiliary (Weather Patrol Ship) by Bethlehem Steel Co., East Boston, MA.
  • Commissioned USS Manasquan (AG-36), 15 October 1941, on loan to the Coast Guard
  • Decommission and transferred to the US Coast Guard, 22 October 1943
  • Commissioned USCGC Manasquan (WAG-273)
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 30 October 1943
  • Decommissioned by the Coast Guard, date unknown
  • Sold for merchant service, dates unknown, renamed SS Aetna
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 11 March 1946, to Patapsco Scrap Co. at Baltimore, MD.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,580 t.
    Length 261'
    Beam 43' 6"
    Draft 18' 10"
    Speed 10 kts.
    Complement 58
    Armament
    one single 4"/50 gun mount
    four single .50 cal. machine guns
    two depth charge projectors
    Propulsion triple expansion reciprocating steam engine, single shaft, 1,200shp

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    USS Lake Catherine (ID-3568)
    Lake Catherine 69k USS Lake Catherine (ID-3568) moored pierside, in 1918.
    US Navy photo # NH 101994, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.
    US Naval Historical Center
    Lake Catherine 66k USS Lake Catherine (ID-3568) in port, possibly when she was inspected for Navy service during the summer or fall of 1918.
    US Navy photo # NH 99505 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.
    Robert Hurst
    Lake Catherine 95k USS Lake Catherine (ID-3568) at Danzig, March 1919, while employed on food relief service. The original image is printed on post card stock.
    US Navy photo # NH 105720, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, donation of Dr. Mark Kulikoswski, 2008.
    Robert Hurst
    Lake Catherine 96k Members of the USS Lake Catherine (ID-3568)'s crew, probably photographed at Danzig, circa March 1919, while she was employed on food relief service. The original image is printed on post card stock. The following inscription was hand-written on the reverse of the original card: "Picture of Ship & 15 of Crew. No time to write anything else before mail goes."
    US Navy Photo # NH 105721, donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2008.
    Robert Hurst
    USS Manasquan (AG-36)
    Gemini 157k Berthed at the Bethlehem Steel East Boston piers, 7 August 1942, are from left to right; USS Matinicus (AK-52), USS Manasquan (AG-36) and USS Menemsha (AG-39) during their weather ship duty. At right is USAT Acadia. This was a week before Matinicus was renamed Gemini.
    Photo # NPS 14314 A US Navy photo now in the collections of NPS Charlestown Navy Yard
    John Chiquoine
    Merchant Service
    Lake Catherine 34k Ex-USS Lake Catherine (ID-3568) in merchant service as SS Aetna, date and location. Photo from Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, Bowling Green State University.
    International Radio Call Sign - LMBV - Lima - Mike - Bravo - Victor
    Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.

    USS Lake Catherine (ID-3568) / USS Manasquan (AG-36)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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