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

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

USS Manhasset (AG-47) was transferred to the Coast Guard during World War II
  • 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, 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, 300shp
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    YAG-8
    Manhasset 113k YAG-8 moored pierside near the New York Navy Yard, 25 March 1942, one day before being placed in service. She has completed conversion to a guardship and appears to be carrying a 4"/50 gun at each end and two of the planned 20mm guns.
    US Navy photo # 19-N-29133, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command.    		 Robert Hurst
    Manhasset 193k USS YAG-8 moored pierside near the New York Navy Yard, 25 March 1942, one day before being placed in service. Stan Svec
    USS Manhasset (AG-47)
    Manhasset 101k USS Manhasset (AG-47) moored pierside at Boston Navy Yard, 14 September 1943, after her reconfiguration as a weather ship and shortly before being transferred to the Coast Guard. Note that as a weather ship she retained her gun platforms fore and aft but her mainmast was replaced by a lighter mast stepped further forward. She lacked the weather balloon releasing tower of the Manasquan (AG-36) class, having been fitted with another type of balloon releasing facilities.
    US Coast Guard Historian's Office photo.    		 Robert Hurst
    Manhasset 94k USS Manhasset (AG-49) in port, 14 September 1943. Like most weather ships, she was fitted with a weather balloon hangar deck aft. Manhasset provided weather service from 1942 to 1945 while assigned to 1st Naval District, at Boston, MA.
    US Navy photo from "U.S. Coast Guard Cutters and Craft of World War II" by Robert L. Scheina.    		 Robert Hurst
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    DANFS     history entry located on the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    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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