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USCGC Manhasset (WIX-276)
ex
 USS Manhasset (AG-47) (1942 - 1943)
 Manhasset (YAG-8) (1942)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
  • Built in 1923 as the cargo ship SS Wilton, by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Sparrows Point, MD
  • Acquired by the Maritime Commission from her owner, Eastern Steamship lines, Inc., in 1941
  • Transferred under time charter to the US Navy, 2 January 1942, renamed Manhasset (YAG-8)
  • ; Reclassified Miscellaneous (AG-47), 30 May 1942
  • Converted for Navy service as a weather patrol ship by Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corp., Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Loaned to the US Coast Guard and commissioned USS Manhasset (AG-47), 8 August 1942, LCDR. P. L. Stinson, USCG, in command
  • Decommissioned and transferred to the US Coast Guard, 22 October 1943
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 30 October 1943
  • Commissioned USCGC Manhasset (WIX-276), 22 October 1943
  • Decommissioned, 15 October 1945 by the US Coast Guard and sold, 16 October 1946
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,000 t.
    Length 245'
    Beam 40'
    Draft 16' 8"
    Speed 11.5 kts.
    Armament
    two single 4"/50 gun mounts
    four single 20mm AA gun mounts
    four depth charge projectors
    Complement 150
    Propulsion system
    one Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Company triple-expansion steam engine
    two Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. single-ended Scotch boilers; 190 psi
    single propeller, 300 SHP
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    Manhasset 34k USS .Manhasset (AG-47) underway, date and location unknown. Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
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    DANFS     history entry located on 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
    US Coast Guard Historian's Office - Manhasset, 1942 WAG-276 ex-Wilton
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